Sir John Lavery RA RSA RHA (1856-1941)
THE LADY PARMOOR, 1919 SOLD FOR 50,000 AT WHYTE’S
Sir John Lavery’s 1919 portrait The Lady Parmoor was the top lot at Whyte’s sale of Irish art in Dublin on September 30. It sold at hammer for the top estimate of 50,000. The subject, Marian Cripps would go on to lead the World YWCA and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. At the end of her life she spoke out against the use of nuclear weapons.
Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) AN ACHILL BOG, c.1928-1930 sold for 42,000
Her radicalism was a family tradition. Her mother, Maria Rowtree, was from the eminent Quaker philanthropist dynasty from York. The family’s philanthropy was a direct result of her uncle, Joseph Rowntree’s encounter at the age of 14 with victims of the Irish famine.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for September 22, 2013)