Sarah Purser in Dublin

July 17 2024

Image of Sarah Purser in Dublin

Picture: hughlane.ie

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

As 2024 is shaping up to be the year for exhibitions on female artists, the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin have recently opened a show dedicated to Sarah Purser.

According to the exhibition's blurb:

Sarah Purser (1848 – 1943) was a hugely influential figure in Irish artistic circles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both as an artist and as an organiser. She played an important role in the founding of Hugh Lane Gallery and helped secure Charlemont House as the gallery’s permanent home. It also marks the centenary of the founding of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, which Purser established in 1924.

Sarah Purser was born in 1848 in Dún Laoghaire and studied in Switzerland, Dublin and Paris, where she studied at the Académie Julian. On her return to Dublin, she established herself as one of the leading portraitists in the city. Hugh Lane Gallery has a fine collection of her work, with sensitive portraits of Jane Barlow, Edward Martyn, Maud Gonne and W. B. Yeats along with the figure studies, Portrait Study, Mother and Child and Painting of a Woman. [...]

The show will run until 5th January 2025.

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