Abstract
Richard Rothwell was an Irish portraitist who was successful in London in the late 1820s. Despite this achievement he felt he had to leave London to acquaint himself with the Italian Masters and see what trends were in demand in Rome in the early 1830s. This chapter analyses how the Italian experience affected his creativity and examines the reasons for his proclivity towards genre and landscape over portraits in works produced up to his death in 1868. Attention is paid to the Rothwell holdings in the National Gallery of Ireland and the National Museum of Northern Ireland. The reasons for the negative reaction to Rothwell’s “Italian” art on his return to England are examined while it is also argued that he may have retained his initial success as a portrait painter had he never gone to Italy.
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