Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haverty, Joseph Patrick
HAVERTY, JOSEPH PATRICK (1794–1864), painter, born in Galway in 1794, obtained some repute as a painter of portraits in Dublin, and was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. Among his best portraits are two of O'Connell, one the property of the Reform Club, and the other of the Limerick corporation. He lived for some time in Limerick. In 1835 he sent to the Royal Academy in London a portrait of the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle, bishop of Kildare, and in 1844 a picture of ‘Father Mathew receiving a Repentant Pledge-breaker.’ From 1846 to 1857 he was a frequent exhibitor of portraits in London. He occasionally painted subject-pictures, and a set of three—‘Baptism,’ ‘Confession,’ and ‘Confirmation’—were lent to the Irish Exhibition in London, 1888. Martin Haverty [q. v.] was his brother. He died in Dublin in 1864.
[Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880; Webb's Comp. of Irish Biog. p. 584; Royal Acad. Catalogues.]