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Lily Williams ARHA (1874-1940)
Estimate:
€300 - €500
Sold
€550
Timed Auction
On-Line Timed Art Auction
Size
10 by 13.50in. (25.4 by 34.3cm)
Description
Title: MOUNTAIN ROAD WITH COTTAGE
Note: A contemporary of Beatrice Elvery and Estella Solomons, Lily Williams was a Dublin born portrait and figure painter of Unionist and Protestant stock. She exhibited regularly at the RHA from 1904, the Dublin Sketching Club and she was one of the Young Irish Artists who showed in Dublin in 1903. Among her best-known sitters was Arthur Griffith who inspired Williams and other "Protestant Sinn Féiners" to learn Irish. Williams designed a Sinn Féin "postage stamp" and Ireland's struggle featured in several forms in her oeuvre; An Irish Volunteer was among her exhibits at the 1916 RHA academy exhibition. From prison in England, 1916-18, Griffith wrote to the artist. In 1921 she presented an oil portrait of him to the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin (now housed in Áras An Uachtaráin). Williams designed the Irish Free State Cross of Cong stamp in 1922, a design still in use up to 1968. She was appointed ARHA in 1929. Her work can be found in important public collections including the Abbey Theatre, Civic Museum, Liberty Hall, UCD and the Hugh Lane among others. For further reading see: Snoddy, p.713-715.
Note: A contemporary of Beatrice Elvery and Estella Solomons, Lily Williams was a Dublin born portrait and figure painter of Unionist and Protestant stock. She exhibited regularly at the RHA from 1904, the Dublin Sketching Club and she was one of the Young Irish Artists who showed in Dublin in 1903. Among her best-known sitters was Arthur Griffith who inspired Williams and other "Protestant Sinn Féiners" to learn Irish. Williams designed a Sinn Féin "postage stamp" and Ireland's struggle featured in several forms in her oeuvre; An Irish Volunteer was among her exhibits at the 1916 RHA academy exhibition. From prison in England, 1916-18, Griffith wrote to the artist. In 1921 she presented an oil portrait of him to the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin (now housed in Áras An Uachtaráin). Williams designed the Irish Free State Cross of Cong stamp in 1922, a design still in use up to 1968. She was appointed ARHA in 1929. Her work can be found in important public collections including the Abbey Theatre, Civic Museum, Liberty Hall, UCD and the Hugh Lane among others. For further reading see: Snoddy, p.713-715.
Medium
oil on board
Signature
signed lower left
Provenance
Acquired in 1985 by the present owner's family;Thence by descent
