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Lady Beatrice Glenavy RHA (1881-1970)
Estimate:
€8,000 - €12,000
Passed
Live Auction
Irish & International Art Auction
Size
25 by 30in. (63.5 by 76.2cm)
Description
Title: THE HAT STAND, c.1941
Note: Beatrice Elvery was the second daughter of the Dublin businessman, William Elvery who owned the original Elverys Sports store in Wicklow Street, Dublin. Her mother, Theresa Moss, had attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art (DMSA) along with her sister, Annie Moss and Beatrice and her sister Dorothy Elvery (Kay) followed in their footsteps, also attending the DMSA, where they were taught by Sir William Orpen.Of his pupil, Orpen wrote that she had "many gifts, much temperament and great ability. Her only fault was that the transmission of her thoughts from her brain to paper or canvas, clay or stained glass became so easy to her that all was said in a few hours. Nothing on earth could make her go on and try to improve on her first translation of her thought."She remained a friend and correspondent of Orpen until shortly before his death in 1931. As a student at the DMSA Elvery won numerous prizes, including the Taylor Scholarship in 1901, 1902 and 1903, one of only three students to win the scholarship three years in succession. Elvery was one of the designers in Sarah Purser's stained-glass studio An Túr Gloine (The Tower of Glass) in 1903 and she worked on several commissions in this capacity throughout Ireland including windows for St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin. Some of her sketch designs in ink and watercolour are held in the National Gallery of Ireland. Elvery also worked in the area of book illustration and with the Cuala Press, Dublin. She was appointed an associate member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1932 and a full member in 1934. Beatrice married Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy in 1912 and they settled in London, returning to Ireland at the end of the war when she then concentrated on painting. In London, the circle in which they lived was frequented by literary and artistic personalities. The couple's literary circle included W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and D.H. Lawrence, Middleton Murray and Katherine Mansfield. A portrait of the latter in Elvery's garden is in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarew, Wellington.
Note: Beatrice Elvery was the second daughter of the Dublin businessman, William Elvery who owned the original Elverys Sports store in Wicklow Street, Dublin. Her mother, Theresa Moss, had attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art (DMSA) along with her sister, Annie Moss and Beatrice and her sister Dorothy Elvery (Kay) followed in their footsteps, also attending the DMSA, where they were taught by Sir William Orpen.Of his pupil, Orpen wrote that she had "many gifts, much temperament and great ability. Her only fault was that the transmission of her thoughts from her brain to paper or canvas, clay or stained glass became so easy to her that all was said in a few hours. Nothing on earth could make her go on and try to improve on her first translation of her thought."She remained a friend and correspondent of Orpen until shortly before his death in 1931. As a student at the DMSA Elvery won numerous prizes, including the Taylor Scholarship in 1901, 1902 and 1903, one of only three students to win the scholarship three years in succession. Elvery was one of the designers in Sarah Purser's stained-glass studio An Túr Gloine (The Tower of Glass) in 1903 and she worked on several commissions in this capacity throughout Ireland including windows for St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin. Some of her sketch designs in ink and watercolour are held in the National Gallery of Ireland. Elvery also worked in the area of book illustration and with the Cuala Press, Dublin. She was appointed an associate member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1932 and a full member in 1934. Beatrice married Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy in 1912 and they settled in London, returning to Ireland at the end of the war when she then concentrated on painting. In London, the circle in which they lived was frequented by literary and artistic personalities. The couple's literary circle included W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and D.H. Lawrence, Middleton Murray and Katherine Mansfield. A portrait of the latter in Elvery's garden is in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarew, Wellington.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
signed with monogram lower left
Exhibited
Possibly exhibited at the RHA, Dublin, 1941, no. 89 as 'The Little Hat Stand' [£40-0-0]
