User:Martha M O Reilly/sandbox

= Richard Thomas Moynan =

Early life
Richard Thomas Moynan (27th of April, 1856 - 10th of April 1906) was born at 11 Eldon Terrace, just off south circular road, to Richard Moynan, a manager in the fabric importers, Pollock & Co., and Harriet Moynan, his wife and daughter of Arthur Noble, a clergyman for the Church of Ireland. He was the fourth of eight children (three sons and five daughters).

Moynan originally studied medicine at Dublins Royal College of Surgeons before leaving and instead attending Dublin Metropolitan School of Art (now known as National College of Art and Design) in the autumn of 1879. While studying at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art he became very successful in his art school career winning both the Taylor and the Cowper (an award given to the student with the best drawing from life). Between the years 1883 and 1885, after his time at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, Richard Moynan attended the Antwerp Academy. Whilst there he shared a space with two other Irish painters named Henry Allan and Roderic O'Conor. Then in 1885, he moved to Paris and stayed there for two years furthering his skills and talents.

On his return back to Dublin he became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1890, and began exhibiting his paintings and art work. In 1887 he was employed by a Dublin based newspaper named The Union as a political cartoonist under the name 'Lex'.