Within our art collection there are six representation of women, a reflection of women's relatively recent access to medicine as a profession.
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.
Contemporary portraits – including those of Mary Horgan, the first woman to be elected President of the RCPI, and patient advocate Laura Brennan – continue our tradition and celebrate the connections between medicine and Irish society.
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fl. eighteenth century
(1992-2019)
Female allegory
(b.1963)
(1874-1955)
'Studio with figure'
Did you know that RCPI was the first medical licensing body in Ireland and Britain to allow women to sit their exams?
