Charles Haughey, Michael Smurfit and Tony O’Reilly are three of a host of the rich and famous that the Florence-trained Kenneth Donfield has painted during his near-40 year career as an artist.  Donfield, a portraiture specialist who studied under the Italian master Pietro Annigoni, has exhibited widely and taught at the National College of Art and Design since the mid-1980s.  A more recent potential client on Donfield’s list is a newer member of the Irish elite, Eamon Waters, the waste tycoon who sold his Beauparc waste empire in 2021 in a €1.2 billion deal.  In September 2021, Donfield penned a…

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