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Irish Women Artists 1870 - 1970
Summer 2014
Fig. 25. Frances (Cissie) Beckett Portrait of Estella Solomons
From the Niland Collection, Sligo
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Know as Cissie she was Samuel Beckett’s Aunt. She studied at the Metropolitan
School of Art with the Beatrice Elvery , LilyWilliams and Estella Solomons and
went to Paris in 1904 with the Elvery sisters and Solomons to take life classes at
Colarossi’s. She married “The Boss” Sinclair an antique and art dealer friend of
Orpen’s and they entertained painters and the literati at their home at Baily in
Howth. After showing much promise she painted little after she got married.
