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First Commandant of Cathal Brugha Barracks,
Dublin
Oil on canvas, 54 x 45cm (21¼ x 17¾ “)
Signed
€1,000 - 2,000
Oil on board, 34 x 24cm (13½ x 9½”)
This work which was previously in an American collection and attributed to Sarah Henrietta Purser,
was apparently sold in Cork in the early 1970s. It has been suggested that the sitter is Thomas Mc-
Greevy, former Director of the National Gallery of Ireland. While it displays many of the characteris-
tics of Purser’s style and indeed there is a portrait of McGreevy listed in John O’Grady’s Catalogue of
the Works of S.H.Purser (Dublin 1996), and with location unknown, this painting is also reminiscent
of the work of Estella Frances Solomons, Mary Duncan and Frida Perrott.
€500 - 800