Delapoer Downing was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1853. A painter of figures and domestic subjects and exhibited the Royal Academy also showing at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1887 and illustrated A. O’D. Barloleyns ‘The Wonder Workers’ (1899) and ‘The Legend of the Xmas Rose’.

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