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www.adams.ieImportant Irish Art | 28th September 2016
34 EILEEN MURRAY (1885-1962)The Tadpole Catcher
Oil on canvas board, 23 x 33cm (9 x 13’’)
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Eileen Murray was born in Templemore Co. Cork. Educated privately, she studied painting with Stanhope 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 after-
wards 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.
€ 2,000 - 3,000