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PETRIE, GEORGE (179o-1866) , Irish antiquary, was the son of James Petrie , a native of Aberdeen, who had settled in Dublin as a portrait and miniature painter. He was born in Dublin in January 1790, and was educated as an artist. Besides attaining considerable reputation as a painter of Irish landscape, he devoted much time to the illustration
Penny
Journal , a periodical designed to disseminate information among the masses, to which he contributed numerous articles on the history of the fine arts in Ireland. Petrie may be regarded as the first scientific investigator of Irish archaeology, his contributions to which are also in themselves of much importance. His Essay on Round Towers, for which in 183o he received the prize of the Irish Academy
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