Women Artists
Our collections contains ten works by eight women artists, ranging in date from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
With greater access to education and training, the professional status of women artists changed significantly between the late eighteenth century when portrait painter Mary Ann Hunter was active and the late nineteenth century when Sarah Purser was lauded as one of Ireland’s most prominent portraitists. You will encounter both of these artists later.
Delving into the lives of the sitters such as Kathleen Lynn a medical practitioner and suffragist and painters like Lily Williams, Sarah Cecilia Harrison, and Estella Solomons shows how medicine, painting and political activism were intertwined during the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century.