Important Irish Art
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Charles MacIver Grierson, RI (1864-1934)
Circus Tricks
Watercolour, 61 x 76cm (24 x 30”)
Signed and dated 1890
Provenance: Sold in these rooms, “Important Irish Art” sale, 26th May 1999, Cat. No. 111, where purchased by the
current owner
Charles MacIver Grierson was born in Queenstown, now Cobh, Co. Cork, in December 1864. His father was the man-
ager of the Cunard Steamship Company, Queenstown. He studied at the Crawford School of Art and for a time went
on to the Westminister School of Art.!e main venue for his output was the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
where over the years he exhibited over 80 works including some Irish views. He met his wife while staying in Sligo in the
period between 1899-1904 and several of his works are in private collections in Sligo. He exhibited extensively including
at the RHA, RA, Walker Gallery, Liverpool, 64 works at the Abbey Gallery, Manchester City Gallery and the Society
of Artists, Birmingham and as a far a&eld as Sydney and Adelaide where the City Art Gallery was an o(cial purchaser.
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