LADY KATE DOBBIN (1868-1955) – A Showery Day, Blackrock Castle, River Lee. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER
This watercolour by Lady Kate Dobbin comes up as lot 2 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which begins to close at 6.30 pm today. It is estimated at €600-€900. Bristol born Lady Kate Dobbin married Alfred Graham Dobbin, a tobacco manufacturer and High Sheriff of Cork. She studied drawing and painting at the Crawford Municipal College of Art, Cork in the early 1890s and exhibited extensively with the Royal Hibernian Academy between 1894 and 1947. She painted mainly in watercolour and was a regular contributor to the Watercolour Society of Ireland over a period of 50 years. Her work is at the Crawford Gallery in Cork and many private collections.