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Important Irish Art
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wednesday 3rd December 2014 at 6pm
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Muriel Brandt RHA (1909 - 1981)
Christmas Eve (Figures on Moore Street)
Oil on board, 43 x 29cm (17 x 11½”)
Signed
Provenance: Important Irish Art sale, these rooms, 6th De-
cember 1973, where purchased by the current owners
Known for her portraits, landscapes and murals, Muriel
Brandt studied at the Belfast College of Art and won
a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London
where she studied for three years. Brandt’s first major
commission was seven paintings for the Church of the
Franciscan Friars on Merchant’s Quay in Dublin, the
sketch for which is now housed in the National Gallery
of Ireland.
Brandt’s forty year long association with the Royal Hi-
bernian Academy began in 1938, and in 1948 she was
appointed an associate. In 1961 she became a full mem-
ber. Brandt’s skill of effortlessly capturing likeness was
commented on by fellow painter James Nolan RHA,
“she was a compulsive draughtsman and sketched like
lightning, achieving in minutes those likenessess of her
contemporaries.”
€2,000 - 4,000