€490
Super Star Lot: A truly excellent original Eileen Murray (Irish, b.1885 - d.1962) oil on board painting featuring an incredible rocky mountain landscape with a family of three figures setting out on their epic journey. Signed with her distinct monogram bottom right and dated to 1952. Presented in a complementary wooden frame behind glass. Eileen Murray has a very strong auction history with her works fetching up to €3,200 at Whyte's.
MM: 41 x 50 cm including frame.
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 afterwards 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. There is a video of this lot on our tic tok facebook and Instagram page under South Dublin Auction.
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