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SAMUEL LOVER (1797-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 72 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL LOVER (1797-1868)  , Irish novelist, artist,
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song-writer and musician, was born in
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Dublin on the 24th of
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February 1797 . His
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father was a stockbroker . Lover began
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life as an artist, and was elected in 1828 a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy—a
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body of which two years afterwards he became secretary . He acquired repute as a
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miniature painter, and a number of the
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local aristocracy sat to him for their portraits . His love for
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music showed itself at an early age . At a
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dinner given to the poet Tom Moore in 1818 Lover sang one of his own songs, which elicited
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special praise from Moore . One of his best-known portraits was that of Paganini, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy . He attracted attention as an author by his Legends and Stories of Ireland (1832), and was one of the first writers for the Dublin University
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Magazine . He went to
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London about 1835, where, among others, he painted Lord Brougham in his robes as lord chancellor . His gifts rendered him popular in society; and he appeared often at Lady Blessington's evening receptions . There he sang several of his songs, which were so well received that he published them (Songs and
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Ballads, 1839) . Some of them illustrated Irish superstitions, among these being " Rory O'More," " The
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Angel's Whisper," " The May
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Dew " and " The Four-leaved Shamrock." In 1837 appeared Rory O'More, a
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National
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Romance, which at once made him a reputation as a novelist; he afterwards dramatized it for the Adelphi Theatre, London .

In 1842 was published his best-known

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work, Handy Andy, an Irish Tale . Meanwhile his pursuits had affected his
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health; and in 1844 he gave up writing for some time, substituting instead public entertainments, called by him " Irish Evenings," illustrative of his own
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works . These were successful both in
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Great Britain and in
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America . In addition to
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publishing numerous songs of his own, Lover edited a collection entitled The Lyrics of Ireland, which appeared in 1858 . He died on the 6th of
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July 1868 . Besides the novels already mentioned he wrote Treasure Trove (1844), and Metrical Tales and Other Poems (186o) . His Life was written in 1874 by Bayle Bernard .

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