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O'Kelly, Aloysius

Biography: O'Kelly 1853-1936 is known as a painter of genre scenes, landscapes and a few portraits in oil and watercolour and the supplier of journalistic images to the Illustrated London News and other publications depicting scenes during the Land War in Ireland (1870s-80s) and imperial events in Egypt and the Sudan. He was closely associated with nationalist politics but many of the the details of his biography remain vague.