Letitia Marion Hamilton RHA (1878-1964) Leaving For The Fair, Connemara Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 60cm (19.3 x 23.5'') Coastal View Of Currachs At Harbour In Seaside Town verso Provenance: Exhibited:...

Letitia Marion Hamilton RHA (1878-1964) Leaving For The Fair, Connemara Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 60cm (19.3 x 23.5'') Coastal View Of Currachs At Harbour In Seaside Town verso Provenance: Exhibited: ''Exhibition Of Irish Paintings'' The Gorry Gallery May/ June, 1990, catalogue no. 78 This work is amongst the artists most charming works painted in the Roundstone area. The scene shows the farmer and his wife preparing the horse and the jennet to carry the packages, vegetables, fish and fowl to be sold at the local fair on the fairgreen in Roundstone. The thatched farmhouse is on the edge of the sea on the foreshore of Errelough(now mistakenly rewritten as Ervalough).The townland name is taken from Scots Galic meaning east of the lake, Loughdubh which is in the fold of land about the hillock which can be seen to the upper right of the composition. The impasto used by the painter gives a sense of the artist's great skill in conveying a rapid movement and action which always gives her work it's effable charm and vivacity. Hamilton spent many years staying at Letterdyffe house, the home of her friends the Robinsons of Letterdyffe and painted a great number of early and important records of the village of Roundstone and its environs. Ciar?n MacGonigal, May 2008

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