WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 26 FEBRUARY 2018

IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 26 FEBRUARY 2018 AT 6 PM 35 Lady Beatrice Glenavy RHA (1881-1970) FRANCIS VALERIO bronze relief; (no. 5 from an edition of 12) inscribed [DAF88] and numbered on side 13.75 by 11.25in. (34.9 by 28.6cm) Provenance: Original plaster cast gifted by the artist to William Leech, fellow student at the Metropolitan School of art, Dublin; Thence to Alan Denson; Private collection Cast ordered from the Dublin Art Foundry in 1988 by Alan Denson. Alan Denson, poet, author, art historian and close friend of Leech, was the author of An Irish Artist. W.J. Leech (1881- 1968) published in two volumes in 1968 and 1969. The plaster cast was in Leech’s effects as he and Beatrice Elvery (later Lady Glenavy) were good friends and studied together at the Metropolitan School of Art under William Orpen. Beatrice Moss Elvery was born in 1883, the second daughter of the Dublin businessman, William Elvery, whose family owned Elvery’s sports store in Wicklow Street, Dublin. She attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where William Orpen (1878- 1931) taught painting and later used Beatrice as a model. When Sarah Purser founded her studio An Túr Gloine (The Tower of Glass) in 1903, she invited Beatrice Elvery to be one of the designers. Beatrice married Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy in 1912 and they settled in London, returning to their home in Sandycove, Co. Dublin at the end of the war when she then concentrated on painting. She also produced numerous illustrations for children’s books. Francis Valerio was born to Italian parents in Dublin in 1884. He was a regular model at the Metropolitan school for, among others, John Hughes andWilliam Orpen. €1,000-€1,500 (£710-£1,070 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 35