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See also:SAMUEL See also:LOVER (1797-1868) , Irish novelist, artist, See also:song-writer and musician, was See also:born in See also:Dublin on the 24th of See also:February 1797 . His See also:father was a stockbroker . See also:Lover began See also:life as an artist, and was elected in 1828 a member of the Royal Hibernian See also:Academy—a See also:body of which two years afterwards he became secretary . He acquired repute as a See also:miniature painter, and a number of the See also:local See also:aristocracy sat to him for their portraits . His love for See also:music showed itself at an See also:early See also:age . At a See also:dinner given to the poet Tom See also:Moore in 1818 Lover sang one of his own songs, which elicited See also:special praise from Moore . One of his best-known portraits was that of See also:Paganini, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy . He attracted See also:attention as an author by his Legends and Stories of See also:Ireland (1832), and was one of the first writers for the Dublin University See also:Magazine . He went to See also:London about 1835, where, among others, he painted See also:Lord See also:Brougham in his See also:robes as lord See also:chancellor . His gifts rendered him popular in society; and he appeared often at See also:Lady See also:Blessington's evening receptions . There he sang several of his songs, which were so well received that he published them (Songs and See also:Ballads, 1839) . Some of them illustrated Irish superstitions, among these being " Rory O'More," " The See also:Angel's Whisper," " The May See also:Dew " and " The Four-leaved Shamrock." In 1837 appeared Rory O'More, a See also:National See also:Romance, which at once made him a reputation as a novelist; he afterwards dramatized it for the Adelphi See also:Theatre, London . In 1842 was published his best-known See also:work, Handy Andy, an Irish See also:Tale . Meanwhile his pursuits had affected his See also:health; and in 1844 he gave up See also:writing for some See also:time, substituting instead public entertainments, called by him " Irish Evenings," illustrative of his own See also:works . These were successful both in See also:Great See also:Britain and in See also:America . In addition to See also: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 See also: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 See also:Bayle See also:Bernard . |
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