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6. Mary Kate Benson (1842-1921)
A Court Quimperlé, Brittany
Oil on canvas, 60 x 44cm
Signed and dated 1891
Inscribed artist’s label verso
Exhibited: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1892, catalogue no. 311
Les Peintres de Quimperlé (1850 -1950) Chapelle des Ursulines, Quimperlé June/Oct 2013
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Mary Kate Benson was born in Dublin and studied in England under Herkomer and Calderon and in
Paris under Lazare. Her sister Charlotte was also a painter. In 1891 she visited Brittany and was based in
Quimper painting street scenes similar to this, and studies of local girls.
