Born in Dublin in 1882, Estella attended the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools under Walter Osborne, and entered the Metropolitan School of Art, where she became a pupil of William Orpen. In 1906, she visited the Rembrandt tercentenary exhibition in Amsterdam, which was a significant event for her. Despite being taught by William Orpen, she was never a formula painter and painted by inclination and sympathy, not by chequebook. She abandoned the Old-Masterish and academician’s style of working be
cause it weighed her feminine love of spontaneity. Estella was no publicist, her talent was a refined, rather private one exercised more for her own pleasure than for the public’s.
Solomons' work featured in 'Irish Women Artists: 1870-1970' exhibition (2014). Please click here to view the catalogue.
Her work also featured in 'The french Connection' (2010), 'A Celebration of Irish Art and Modernism' (2011) and 'Ireland: Her People and Landscape' (2012).
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