Editing Martin Archer Shee (section)

==Early life==
He was born in [[Dublin]], of an old Irish Roman Catholic family, the son of Martin Shee, a merchant, who regarded the profession of a painter as an unsuitable occupation for a descendant of the Shees. His son Martin nevertheless studied art in the [[Royal Dublin Society]] and came to London. There, in 1788, he was introduced by [[Edmund Burke]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KdgPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA483 THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW: ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE LITERATURE, HISTORY, BIOGEAPHY, POLITICS, ART, MANNERS, AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE AGE.]</ref> to [[Joshua Reynolds]], on whose advice he studied in the schools of the [[Royal Academy of Arts]].