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Oil on canvas, 17 x 24 cm (6¾ x 9½”)
Signed with monogram, inscribed Achill and dated Nov (19)’60
Provenance: Diana Killock, the artist’s daughter
Exhibited: “Irish Women Artists 1870-1970”, Adams Dublin, July 2014; The Ava Gallery, Clandyboye
August 2014, Cat. No. 61
Literature: “Irish Women Artists 1870-1970” (2014), illustrated p.78
Eileen Murray was born in Templemore Co. Cork. Educated privately, she studied painting with Stan-
hope Forbes at Newlyn, Cornwall and was there with Laura Knight. She married Major Stewart Murray
in 1908 and lived with him in India where she had considerable success with her painting, winning many
medals. Due to her husband’s father tragically drowning in Lough Bawn in 1920, she moved home to
Mosstown House, Kenagh, Co. Longford. Her husband died shortly afterwards in 1922 leaving Eileen to
run the 500 acre estate. Her main exhibition period seems to have been the 1920s when she exhibited
regularly at the RHA, Dublin Sketching Club and the Belfast Art Society. Achill subjects seem to have
been her favourite theme. Her pictures are included in the Ulster Museum and the Garter Lane Gallery in
Waterford. She continued to live and work at Mosstown until she moved to Killiney in 1947 where she
remained until she died in 1962 with many painting trips to Achill, Spain, Italy and Canada in between.
€600 - €800