Sarah Cecilia Harrison
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. www.whytes.ie
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'PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY READING'
- Price Realised: 6,600
- Sale: 24 November 2014
- oil on canvas
- 30 x 18in. (76.20 x 45.72cm)
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'HENRY D. JAMESON, AGED 17, 1912'
- Price Realised: 4,200
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- oil on canvas
- 64 by 51cm., 25 by 20in.
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'LANDSCAPE FROM PORTICO'
- Price Realised: 540
- Sale: 17 February 2020
- oil on board
- 12½ x 8½in. (31Ύ x 21.59cm)
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'HEAD OF A BEARDED GENTLEMAN'
- Price Realised: 420
- Sale: 05 October 2020
- charcoal on tinted paper
- 10 x 7½in. (25.40 x 19.05cm)
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'FEMALE FIGURE, 1896'
- Price Realised: 300
- Sale: 24 March 2025
- pencil
- 11 x 9in. (27.94 x 22.86cm)