Hugh Primrose Dean

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Hugh Primrose Dean was also known as Hew Primrose Deane.³ Hugh Primrose Dean was also known as Hugh Primrose Deane. He was born circa 1725 at Cork.¹ He was the son of Alexander Deane and Grizelle Kennedy of Bennane.¹

Hugh Primrose Dean married Eleanor Gamble at Christ Church on Sunday, 27 December 1761 at Cork.⁴ Hugh lived circa 1765 at London.⁴ He exibited with the Society of Arts and secured the patronage of Henry, second Viscount Palmerston. He spent much of his working life in Italy around Rome and Naples.⁴ He was a landscape painter, called 'the Irish Claude' and 'a devoted imitator of Gaspard Poussin.^5,1' By circa 1780, through his misconduct, he had lost the favour of his patron, Lord Palmerston, and had made but little way as a painter in London.⁴ He was a Methodist preacher circa 1782.⁴

Hugh died circa 1784.⁴