Irish railway modeller and artist.
George Hannan was born in Ballineskar, Co.Wexford and first considered studying art seriously following the winning of an award from the British and Dominions School of Art in 1937. He went on to study drawing under Peter Brennan ANCA , and N C Moore ANCA, winning a first class award in a National Art Examination during 1944.
He eventually attended the National College of Art for a finishing course in oil painting under the instruction of Maurice McGonigle RHA and, finally, figure and portrait painting under Sean Keating PRHA. He was well known for his railway and landscape paintings and exhibited in Dublin for some years before moving to Donegal in 1984.
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