Cecil King (22 February 1921 – 7 April 1986) was famous for his painting.
Born Rathdrum, County Wicklow, Ireland, King was largely self-taught as an artist.
He had his first one-man show in 1959, but worked as a businessman and did not become a full-time artist until 1964.
While he began painting in an expressionist style, his mature works have a distinctive cool minimalist formality and often involve clean blocks of even colour cleaved at an acute angle.
A retrospective of his work was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery in 1981, and another was held in the Irish Museum of Modern Art on 27 February 2008.