Seán O'Sullivan (painter)
Seán O'Sullivan was an Irish painter.
He was educated at Synge Street, CBS in Dublin and went on to study drawing at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where he won a scholarship and studied lithography at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. He also studied painting in Paris at Colarossi's and La Grande Chaumiere.
He began exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1926, at the age of 20, contributing an average of six paintings a year until his death. Primarily a portrait painter, O'Sullivan composed works featuring many of the leading political and cultural figures in Ireland, including Éamon de Valera, Douglas Hyde, W B Yeats, and James Joyce. He designed the cover for the Capuchin Annual in 1930.
Between 1943 and 1957 O'Sullivan designed commemorative stamps for the Irish Post Office of Douglas Hyde, based on his own portrait of him, William Rowan Hamilton, Edmund Rice and Admiral William Brown.
