'''Daniel Maclise''' (1806 - April 25, 1870), Irish painter, was born in Cork, the son of a Highland soldier.

His education was of the plainest kind, but he was eager for culture, fond of reading, and anxious to become an artist. His father, however, placed him, in 1820, in Newenham's Bank, where he remained for two years, and then left to study in the Co...(continue reading)