Irish Peasant Woman (1913)

John S. Currie

oil on panel

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Photo credit: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Panel

Dimensions:

59.5 x 43.6 cm

Accession Number:

K875

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1928

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted to the Contemporary Art Society by Sydney Schiff (1868-1944), 1926; presented to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1928

Relationship:

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Sydney Alfred Schiff

This is possibly the Irish model Dorothy 'Dolly' Eileen Henry (O'Henry) who the artist murdered in her Chelsea / Hampstead flat and then shot himself, dying a few days later, in 1914.

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