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Lilian Lucy Davidson ARHA (1893-1954) THE COURTYA

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Lilian Lucy Davidson ARHA (1893-1954) THE COURTYA
<B>Lilian Lucy Davidson ARHA (1893-1954)</B><BR>THE COURTYARD, FRIAR'S HILL<BR>signed in monogram lower left; original exhibition label on reverse inscribed with title and price (£7-10-0)<BR>gouache on buff-coloured card<BR>37 by 25cm., 14.5 by 10in.<BR>Provenance:<BR>Dermod O'Brien PRHA; By descent to Dr Brendan O'Brien; Private collection Exhibited: WCSI, 1940, catalogue no 131 (£7-10-0); Friar's Hill is a townland near Wicklow harbour, where Davisdson painted some of her best-known works.<BR>
After her father's death, Lilian Lucy Davidson moved to Dublin, but would occasionally return to her home town Wicklow and to Arklow to paint. When doing so she would stay at "Major Grimshaw's house, Friar's Hill, where he kept paying guests" (Irish Arts Review, 1999). The present work depicts the courtyard of Major Grimshaw's house.