Asheville-based busker Samuel W. performs his version of Gurunam Singh’s song “Eyes of the Angels” on a windy winter day in downtown Asheville.

It seems only appropriate that Samuel Forde’s great painting Fall of the Rebel Angels remains unfinished. After all, the artist known in his native Cork as ‘the young Raphael’ had his life ...

SAMUEL Forde’s painting Fall of the Rebel Angels was unfinished when he died in 1826, aged 23. But the work so captivated academics Michael Waldron and Dr Shane Lordan, at the Crawford Art ...