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58. Caroline Scally (1886-1973)
140th Anniversary ‘1798 commemorations’ at Donnard, Co.Wicklow
Oil on board, 32 x 40.5cm
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Caroline Scally was born in Dun Laoghaire and studied at the Metropolitan School of Art with
Sean Keating and James Sinton Sleator under William Orpen. Awarded the Taylor Art Scholar-
ship in 1911 she headed for Paris and then on to Rome. She held her first one-woman show at
The Dublin Painters Gallery in 1930 and was later to become President of the Dublin Painters
Society in 1962. She exhibited at the first IELA exhibition in 1943 and exhibited regularly at the
RHA and with the watercolour Society of Ireland becoming a committee member in 1958.
