"Belfast, NMC" Canvas

Story Behind the Painting

This piece started as a painting called ‘Two Pints’ and later had the lettering added to embody ‘Belfast, No Mean City’.

The image is of an ordinary, working class man, relaxed with a cigarette and two pints of Guinness as he finishes a hard day’s work.

The working men’s clubs and bars around Harland & Wolff’s shipyard in East Belfast would be filled with men after their shift. Heavy coats and collarless shirts with a woollen waistcoat were their everyday clothes.

The phrase ‘No Mean City’ is a quotation from the bible where Paul, the apostle, says he is a citizen of ‘No Mean City’ (an obscure or insignificant city) in his case a Roman citizen. In Bradley’s painting he uses the phrase to give weight and significance to his hometown of Belfast, of which he is immensely proud.

Open Edition

A selected number of our prints are produced as open editions. These prints have been singled out by Terry as having special significance to him and wants them to be available to everyone.

Description

Our canvas prints are high-quality giclée prints produced on artists' canvas and are signed by the artist himself. Each canvas comes with a certificate of authenticity, also signed by the artist.

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Dimensions

* Dimensions are estimates based on the size of the printed image and the typical size of the standard frames we use. For a custom-sized piece, please contact our Bangor gallery.

Shipping & Collections

 
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