{"id":349342,"date":"2026-03-16T17:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349342\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:42:23","slug":"roscommon-artists-painting-sells-for-e245k-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349342\/","title":{"rendered":"Roscommon artist&#8217;s painting sells for \u20ac245k &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A painting by a Roscommon artist has sold for close to quarter of a million euro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The painting, Le Loing at Sundown, by Castleplunkett native Roderic O&#8217;Conor sold recently at Whyte\u2019s Auction House for an incredible \u20ac245,000, well in excess of its estimated value of \u20ac150,000 &#8211; \u20ac200,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Born in Milltown in 1860, O&#8217;Conor&#8217;s paintings are hugely popular worldwide with art lovers. The painting depicts the River Loing in France, which O&#8217;Conor discovered in the late 1880s when he was a student in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He spent several summers at nearby Grez-sur-Loing, and O&#8217;Conor&#8217;s fondness for the area was such that he returned several times, including in 1902 when the painting was created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A painting by a Roscommon artist has sold for close to quarter of a million euro. The painting,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-349342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}