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Oil on canvas, 76 x 54.5cm (30 x 21½”)

Provenance: The Artist’s Estate. Important Irish Art Sale, these rooms, December 2001, Cat. No. 77 where purchased by current owner

Exhibited: Estella Solomons Exhibition, The Crawford Gallery, Cork, May/June 1986, Cat. No. 16

€ 800 - 1,200

Born in Dublin in 1882, Estella attended the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools under Walter Osborne, and entered the Metropolitan

School of Art, where she became a pupil of William Orpen. In 1906, she visited the Rembrandt tercentenary exhibition in Amsterdam,

which was a significant event for her. Despite being taught by William Orpen, she was never a formula painter and painted by inclination

and sympathy, not by chequebook. She abandoned the Old-Masterish and academician’s style of working because it weighed her femi-

nine love of spontaneity. Estella was no publicist, her talent was a refined, rather private one exercised more for her own pleasure than

for the public’s.