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I think we have seen that chain on Mayors of Waterford before...

Here is a different Mayor of Waterford wearing it: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000591753 And here: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000036845/Image?lookfor=http:...

One year later, and one mayor later. The previous image (below) is Edward Walsh (Mayor 1928-29). www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6061514031/ Which would likely make this portrait image John Wyley (Mayor 1926-27). At least according to Wikipedia and the NLI catalogue.

It also says "Waterford" above his head... (As part of the coat of arms and motto of Waterford City: "Urbs Intacta Manet Waterfordia")

wikipedia has a list, and suggests that in 1926 and 1927 the Mayor was John J. Wyley

My darlings, as you can see, I have tired of your entertainments! Please quit my chambers, as I require rest. Humbolt, please fetch my slippers!

Such a good picture, what a gem!

It is a great picture. Quiet noisy though lol.

it's a little Mucha-esque.

Delighting the senses , exciting intellectual and emotional admiration....

Frank A. Bicknell (1866-1943) was an American painter: www.questroyalfineart.com/2077/ogunquit-maine.html

Bicknell was a performer in the New York Beaux Arts Society's pageant of the history of Venice, presented at the Hotel Astor on February 20, 1914. New York Times story, February 21, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D03E0DF163AE6... Frank Bicknell and seven other painters from the summer artists' colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1914 founded the Lyme Art Association, and erected a gallery adjacent to the Agnes Richardson mansion to showcase their work. www.lymeartassociation.org/history.php From a description of a painting of Bicknell's in an exhibition: Frank A. Bicknell (1866-1943) "Ogunquit, Maine" Oil on artist's board Gift of Mr. Charles Tyler 1973.18 "Bicknell's small painting renders the sun-drenched coast of Maine with startling freshness. Working on the spot with a palette knife, the artist applied paint directly to the board to construct the rock's craggy surface. He used the color of the bare support itself to suggest the cliff's sharp crevices. "Bicknell, who never married and was likely gay, regarded Miss Florence [Richardson] and the members of the Lyme Art Colony as "the family." He and other Lyme artists sometimes fled Connecticut's late summer humidity to sketch and fish in Maine. In addition to painting in Ogunquit, a small fishing village on Maine's south coast, Bicknell spent time with Lyme artists Walter Griffin, Arthur Heming, and Charles Ebert at Monhegan Island. Bicknell maintained a life-long connection to Lyme through the home left to him as a bequest by the artist Lewis Cohen, a fellow Griswold House boarder."

Other Bain/LOC photos of the Beaux Arts Society's Venetian Pageant, at the Hotel Astor, February 20, 1914:

More Bain/LOC photos of performers in the Beaux Arts Society's Venetian Pageant:

Thank you to all for research into this interesting event! We will add more details when we update the descriptive information.