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Ronald Ossory Dunlop RA RBA NEAC (1894-1973) LANDSCAPE WITH LAKE AND WILLOW signed lower right; d...

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Ronald Ossory Dunlop RA RBA NEAC (1894-1973) LANDSCAPE WITH LAKE AND WILLOW signed lower right; d...
Ronald Ossory Dunlop RA RBA NEAC (1894-1973)
LANDSCAPE WITH LAKE AND WILLOW
signed lower right; dated [19 August 1953] on reverse
oil on canvas
51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
€2,500-€3,500 (£1,700-£2,300 sterling approx.)
Edith Œnone Somerville (1858-1949)
Edith Somerville is well known and remembered owing to the successful literary
partnership forged with her cousin Violet Martin, who wrote under the nom de
plume Martin Ross. Together, Somerville and Ross wrote fourteen books including
An Irish Cousin (1889), Some Adventures of an Irish R.M. (1899) and In Mr Knox’s
Country (1915). Somerville not only contributed to the text but also supplied
the illustrations. She was educated at Alexandra College in Dublin and trained
as an artist in London, Dusseldorf, and Paris. An early career as a magazine
illustrator prepared her for the more satisfying task of illustrating her own
novels. Following her cousin’s death in 1915 she continued to write and publish
as Somerville and Ross, communicating with her cousin – so she believed –
through sèances. She spent most of her life on the family estate in Drishane,
Co. Cork, dividing her time between literary and artistic pursuits with riding
and hunting.
Provenance (for lots 225 to 229):
The artist’s estate;
Sir Patrick Coghill Brt. (Edith Somerville’s nephew);
Sotheby’s, London, July 1968;
Whence purchased by the Neptune Gallery, Dublin;
Private collection, Dublin