WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART Monday 19 October 2020

IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 19 October 2020 AT 6PM 133 94 Margaret Allen HRHA (1830-1914) PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, 1870 oil on canvas; (tondo) signed and dated lower left; with partial handwritten label preserved on reverse detailing artist’s name and address [12 Westland Row, Dublin]; also with label of J.J. Dillon Framer & Restorer, Dublin on reverse 29.50 by 24.50in. (74.9 by 62.2cm) Frame size: 38 by 33in. (97 by 84cm.) Margaret Allen was the first woman to be elected an honorary member of the RHA, yet relatively little is known about her life. During the years 1853-94 she showed more than fifty works at the RHA, mostly portraits and genre subjects such as The Last Hour in the Old Land, an eviction scene which sold through the Gorry Gallery in 1989. In addition to showing with the RHA, Allen also exhibited at the Manchester City Art Gallery, where she lived for some time in the 1890s, the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham and at Walker Gallery in Liverpool. She died in Balleen, Co. Kilkenny, in 1914 (see Snoddy, pages 14-15). For another work by this artist see lot 96. €1,500-€2,000 (£1,330-£1,780 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot94