Thom's Irish Who's Who/Keating, John

KEATING, John, A.R.H.A.; Portrait Painter; Lecturer Drawing and Painting from Life, Dublin Metropolitan School of Art Educ.: St. Munchin's College, Limerick. Was an omnivorous reader from the age of six or seven, went to school very irregularly, living about the ships and quays, and learned foreign languages from the sailors: spent three years in the mountains in Clare, shooting and living in the open; at twenty went to Dublin, having won a Scholarship in Art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art: twice at intervals was in London; spent four years in Arran, off the west coast of Ireland: came back to Dublin and won the Taylor Scholarship in Painting; loves every kind of bodily and mental activity; paint's what he sees: has no theories about art. Recns.: Gaelic literature and music, swimming, rowing, chopping timber; b. Limerick, 29th Sept.. 1889; son of Joseph Keating and Anne Hannan: m. 1919, May, dau. of John Walsh, Eadstown, Co. Kildare. Res.: 106 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin.