Margaret Clarke (née Crilley)
Born Margaret Crilley, in Newry, Co. Down, she first studied art at the local technical school, where she won a scholarship. In 1905 she came to Dublin to further her studies at the Metropolitan School of Art, there coming under Orpen's tutelage. She worked as both studio assistant and model for Orpen. At the Metropolitan School she was awarded many prizes including a teacher training scholarship. In 1914 she visited the Aran Islands with her future husband, the stained-glass artist and illustrator Harry Clarke. www.whytes.ie After her husband's death in 1931 she took on the work of running his stained-glass studio, concurrent with maintaining her own painting career. Their son David, also an artist, later joined the business. In 1932 the Haverty Trust commissioned her to paint St Patrick for the Mansion House, Dublin. Other commissions included portraits of Eamon de Valera, Lennox Robinson and Archbishop McQuaid. She held a solo exhibition at the Dublin Painters Gallery in 1939, and four years later helped establish the first Irish Living Art Exhibition. Her work is represented in all major public collections in Ireland and was most recently celebrated in 2017 with a major exhibition 'Margaret Clarke: An Independent Spirit' at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin and the F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge. www.whytes.ie
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'SELF PORTRAIT, c.1914'
- Price Realised: €48,000
- Sale: 26 November 2018
- oil on canvas
- 16 x 12in. (40.64 x 30.48cm)
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'DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF TWO GIRLS'
- Price Realised: €24,000
- Sale: 04 March 2019
- oil on canvas
- 39 x 33in. (99.06 x 83.82cm)
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'PORTRAIT OF A LITTLE BOY, circa 1918-19'
- Price Realised: €9,500
- Sale: 21 February 2006
- oil on canvas
- 124 by 85cm., 48.7 by 33.5in.
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'AIRMAN OF INISHEER'
- Price Realised: €7,500
- Sale: 30 November 2015
- oil on canvas
- 30 x 36in. (76.20 x 91.44cm)
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'ROCKS, NORTH COUNTY DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: €380
- Sale: 30 November 2015
- oil on board
- 13 x 10in. (33.02 x 25.40cm)