Irish Modernist Oil on Canvas Painting "Young Bathers" Children on the Beach by Henry Robertson Craig Drawings & Prints and adorned with bronze applique

and adorned with bronze applique masks with foliate & floral panels in between

The table is raised on four tapering legs joined with a elongated 'H' frame stretcher with a turned 'acorn' finial to the center

The brightly glazed frieze of six tiles portrays the 18th Century Venetian philanderer and adventurer Casanova

Both the top

the original key and pendulum are present

Irish Modernist Oil on Canvas Painting "Young Bathers" Children on the Beach by Henry Robertson Craig Drawings & Prints and adorned with bronze appliqueAn important Irish Modernist oil on canvas painting by Henry Robertson Craig (1816 1984), titled "Young Bathers", circa 1960. This very beautiful painting of children seated on the beach, with other figures bathing is the sea, under a warm blue sky. The painting is very sensitively composed and is an exceptional example of one of Ireland's most respected modernist painters; Henry Robertson Craig along with his long time companion Patrick Hennessy