JAMES HUMBERT CRAIG (1878-1944)
Aghla More / Eachla Mör (584 m -1,916 ft)
Ireland
In Muckish Mountain, oil on canvas, 1935
In Muckish Mountain, oil on canvas, 1935
The mountain
Aghla More / Eachla Mör (584 m -1,916 ft) is a mountain in County Donegal, Ireland. The mountain is the third most southern and fourth highest of the mountain chain, called the 'Seven Sisters' by localshas several names as Muckish, Crocknalaragagh, Aghla Beg, Ardloughnabrackbaddy, Aghla More, Mackoght, also known as 'little Errigal' and Errigal !
The Seven Sisters are part of the Derryveagh Mountain range.
The painter
James Humbert Craig was an Irish painter. Craig was born in Belfast to Alexander Craig, a tea merchant, and a Swiss mother, Marie Metzenen, from a family with a painting tradition. He was raised in County Down and maintained a studio at Cushendun, County Antrim. Craig abandoned a career in business, briefly attended the Belfast School of Art, and became a mostly self-taught painter of landscapes. Among his favorite panoramas were Donegal, Connemara and the Glens of Antrim. Craig was elected to the Royal Ulster Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1928. He also exhibited at the Fine Art Society in London.
His landscapes helped inspire artists like Maurice Canning Wilks.
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