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Death of Mr. Leo Whelan THE death took place in Dublin yesterday of Mr. Leo Whelan, R.H.A. Mr. Whelan was commissioned to paint the portraits of many famous people. They included the late Cardinal MacRory, Dr. Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland, and the President. Just a year ago he finished a portrait of Mr. Leo Whelan. At the time he took ill, he was working on the portrait of a Limerick business man. He is survived by his three sisters, Misses Frances and Lily Whelan and Mrs. Lena Murnaghan. Sean Keating tribute In a tribute last night, Mr. Sean Keating, President of the R.H.A. said: "His death will be deeply regretted by his colleagues, and he is a great loss to the Irish school of painting. He was a man, and was a brilliant type of painter, within a very acceptable convention. "He always saw the amiable aspects in his life. "During his life he painted portraits of most all well known Dublin celebrities. He was also an excellent still life painter." The remains will arrive at Gardiner Street Church at 6.45 this evening, and the funeral will take place to Glasnevin Cemetery after 9.15 a.m. Mass to-morrow. Critic's tribute In a tribute to Mr. Whelan last night our Art Critic said: Mr. Leo Whelan was one of Orpen's most direct and most considerable pupils. From the start of his career he concentrated on the humour and character of man, and it is a notable fact that his greatest successes were concerned with the portrayal of the famous men who built up the modern Ireland. Women, for all their beauty and obvious elegance of presentation, were never completely to Leo Whelan's taste or style. He preferred to show us the prelates, politicians and businessmen of our time through their essential strength of artistic point. From an artistic point of view the humour, integrity of mind and the capacity to fasten on the important incident which underlines the moment he sought. It can be said with truth that no artist of our time was so connected with our recent history, or everwidening sphere of economical and political thought. Leo Whelan was a commemorator of contemporary life in Ireland. The late Mr. Whelan Mr. Leo Whelan DEATH OF NOTED IRISH PAINTER Mr. Leo Whelan, whose death has occurred at a private nursing home in Dublin was one of the most distinguished Irish portraitists in the past every notable figure in Irish public life. Born in Dublin in 1892, both his parents being natives of Co. Kerry, he was educated at Belvedere College, and at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He obtained several prizes awarded under the Taylor Bequest, and in 1916 he won the Taylor Art Scholarship of the R.D.S. He exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy since 1916 and was elected an associate in 1920. He was made a full member three years later. Mr. Whelan, who had as started at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art the late Sir William Orpen, was one of the painters who made their influence felt after a long period when Irish painting was in a backwater. F…