Eileen Murray (1885-1962) Return from Market, Achill Oil on canvas, 17 x 24cm (6¾ x 9½”) Signed with monogram, inscribed Achill and dated Nov (19)’60 Provenance: Diana Killock, the...

Eileen Murray (1885-1962) Return from Market, Achill Oil on canvas, 17 x 24cm (6¾ x 9½”) Signed with monogram, inscribed Achill and dated Nov (19)’60 Provenance: Diana Killock, the artist’s daughter Exhibited: “Irish Women Artists 1870-1970”, Adams Dublin, July 2014; The Ava Gallery, Clandyboye August 2014, Cat. No. 61 Literature: “Irish Women Artists 1870-1970” (2014), illustrated p.78 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.

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