Owen Swiny by Peter van Bleeck, 1737 (National Portrait Gallery)
Owen Swiny (Also spelled McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny) (1676, near Enniscorthy, Ireland – 2 October 1754) was an Irish theatre impresario and art dealer active in London known for his work in popularising Italian opera in London and his agency in Venice.[1]
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OwenSwiny (Also spelled McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny) (1676, near Enniscorthy, Ireland – 2 October 1754) was an Irish theatre impresario and...
their Grand Tour, first through the agency of OwenSwiny, and later the banker Joseph Smith. It was Swiny in the late 1720s who encouraged the artist to...
1723. Van Bleeck is especially known for theatrical subjects such as OwenSwiny, Kitty Clive and Margaret Woffington, but he also worked on other subjects...
too extricated himself, expensively, by selling the business in 1708 to OwenSwiny., though without ever collecting much of the putative price. He had put...
his queen). Nicola Porpora was invited to be its musical director and OwenSwiny considered as its talent scout. The company had Senesino (who had fallen...
In 1754 she became the beneficiary of the will of the Irish impresario OwenSwiny. In 1756, she performed the part of Lady Randolph in Douglas, a part which...
In 1709, Wilks, with Cibber, Thomas Doggett, and Anne Oldfield joined OwenSwiny in managing the Haymarket. The next year, the group won their struggle...
presented in Paris in 1675. After the second performance theatre manager OwenSwiny stole the box office receipts and disappeared, leaving the musicians unpaid...
Agrippina: Ho un non so che nel cor. The English libretto was created by OwenSwiny. In January 1709 Walsh, Randall, and Hare printed the overture and 54...
Scarlatti in 1694; translated in English as Pyrrhus and Demetrius by OwenSwiny (1709, reprinted 1716) 1690: L'incoronazione di Serse, with music by Giuseppe...
challenging gender lines both on and off stage, led the London impresario OwenSwiny to dismiss her as "some He-she-thing or other". She was engaged by Maximilian...
politician (d. 1723) John Rogerson, lawyer and politician (d. 1741) OwenSwiny, theatrical impresario and art dealer (d. 1754) Caleb Threlkeld, botanist...
port de Mahadou–Minet el-Beida", in Res Maritimae, ed. S. Swiny, R. Hoh-felder, and L. Swiny, Atlanta, pp. 357–69, 1997 Barber, E. J.W., "Dyes", in Prehistoric...
death in 1846. The property was then sold and bought by Captain Shapland Swiny. He lived there for several years with his wife Georgiana and had two of...
Friary Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular founded c.1535–1540 by MacSwiny Bannagh; dissolved c.1600; Observant Franciscan Friars place of refuge c...
Head Rev. Sir Francis Head, Bt. and his three daughters, 1750. McSwinyOwen McSwiny, art dealer (c. 1738, also painted by van Loo) Montagu eight portraits...
Friary Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular founded c.1535–1540 by MacSwiny Bannagh; dissolved c.1600; Observant Franciscan Friars place of refuge c...
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