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224 214 Sarah Cecilia Harrison HRUA (1863-1941) HEAD OF A BEARDED GENTLEMAN charcoal on tinted paper with typed label of the Gorry Gallery on reverse detailing artist’s name, provenance and brief biography 10 by 7.50in. (25.4 by 19.1cm) Dimensions of Frame: 18.5 by 15in. (47 by 38cm) Condition: Some creases visible on close inspection. Otherwise good condition. Provenance: The Artist’s Sketchbook; Gorry Gallery, Dublin c.1970-1980s; Private collection; Fonsie Mealy’s, 22 June 2010, lot 512; Private collection Sarah Cecilia Harrison was born in County Down and moved to London on the death of her father. She studied at Queens College in London where she was awarded a silver medal by University College, London, for painting from the antique. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Alphonse Legros and won the Slade scholarship. She travelled to Paris, Italy and Amsterdam as part of her studies. Harrison then settled in Dublin as a portraitist. She exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy’s and the Royal Academy in London and was an honorary academician of the Royal Ulster Academy of Fine Arts. Harrison became the first female city councillor for Dublin Corporation in 1912, she worked to promote women’s rights and campaigned to have Poor relief extended to the able-bodied unemployed. She was closely involved in Hugh Lane’s efforts to establish a gallery of modern art in Dublin and claimed that they were engaged to be married prior to his death on the Lusitania. We are grateful to the Gorry Gallery and Hannah Baker for their kind assistance in cataloguing this lot. €400-€600 (£360-£550 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot214