Muriel Brandt RHA (1909 - 1981) Christmas Eve (Figures on Moore Street) Oil on board, 43 x 29cm (17 x 11½'') Signed Provenance: Important Irish Art sale, these rooms, 6th December 1973, where...

Muriel Brandt RHA (1909 - 1981) Christmas Eve (Figures on Moore Street) Oil on board, 43 x 29cm (17 x 11½'') Signed Provenance: Important Irish Art sale, these rooms, 6th December 1973, where purchased by the current owners Known for her portraits, landscapes and murals, Muriel Brandt studied at the Belfast College of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London where she studied for three years. Brandt's first major commission was seven paintings for the Church of the Franciscan Friars on Merchant's Quay in Dublin, the sketch for which is now housed in the National Gallery of Ireland. Brandt's forty year long association with the Royal Hibernian Academy began in 1938, and in 1948 she was appointed an associate. In 1961 she became a full member. Brandt's skill of effortlessly capturing likeness was commented on by fellow painter James Nolan RHA, ''she was a compulsive draughtsman and sketched like lightning, achieving in minutes those likenessess of her contemporaries.''

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