This thread discusses the Content article: Feeney, Patrick M.

The good thing about this article was I started looking for Peregrine's paintings under the Patrick name, and finally up came one nice seascape, so I am glad of that. Is it possible the person who identified him as Patrick assumed from the initials P.M. that an Irishman had to be named that? He has been listed in other places as P.M. Feeney. (can't remember where now.)

A surprise came today (perhaps a cosmic present for finally getting the play done): I was at the library reading the book on Andrew Lloyd Webber's Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters collection (that includes an article by Peter trippi) and, after finishing the article, was enjoying the other paintings, when all of a sudden I was confronted by Mr. Feeney in the middle of "A Country Wedding" by Sir Luke Fildes, wearing his beloved red uniform, carrying his beloved cane, just his nose a bit beefed up, but his eyes, his ears, his stance - and no, I am not mistaken: Fildes did a better job of his face than Logsdail did. I see that Fildes does not yet have his own spot among the friends here, and he should - his home was the house everyone visited, who had anything to do with art in London at that time. If you would like, I would love to gather the material together about him. It turns out a favorite painting of mine, that I had found on the Internet unattributed to an artist, belongs to him.

For now: introducing the beloved Bear Feeney:

and the _link_ to Fildes' full painting, The Country Wedding

BTW: If anyone can identify for me the type of uniform that Bear is wearing, and wears in "The Ninth of November" by Logsdail, I would appreciate it. I don't know the names of the different military uniforms, and would like to identify it correctly in the play.

The artist working at Primrose Hill Studios was Patrick M Feeney. William Peregrine Feeney, however, worked from addresses in Westminster and West Kensington. Both artists later give their address as Croyde, North Devon.

As to the Trooper in Fildes' painting, the artist's son later recorded that he was a Life Guardsman stationed at the New Cavalry Barracks in Knightsbridge who was paid a shilling a day to model for the painting.

I asked Himenoa to confirm if this was an indeed a Life Guard's uniform (as military fashion is not my speciality) to which she responded with a salute:

'...known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon - Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!'

I wish that I had not asked.

Except for the nose, and a bit about the hair, he looks so much like him...the eyes in particular. The moustache completely in particular. Damn. And agh. It at least gives a better idea of what he looked like. Thank you for the type of uniform.

All the Feeneys are caught in a blender. StB, which Feeney married Emily? All I knew before I came here [update-that I could verify] was that his name was Bear, and what he looked like. After that, names and such are what I've learned from Trippi, and from here.

Emily married Peregrine in 1891, or to give him his full name: Peregrine Mulvigue Feeney

Emily Lydia Kenworthy wed Peregrine Mulvigue Feeney in the district of Uckfield, East Sussex in 1891 (between July-September)

Thanks, Julia - the date and place clears up a lot for me. And Peregrine Mulvogue it is. (Mulvigue must have been a typo in the record).

I had been wondering about Feeney's extended family, but have had nothing I could begin to verify or connect together by having names, places or dates. I have images. It's like having a silent movie for a record: no sound, and just an occasional flash card with verbal information.

Thanks again.