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An Irish Lady by Edith Anna Oenone Somerville, 30" x 25" oil on canvas relined, cleaned and varnished in new ready-made antiqued gold frame. Signed lower left corner but signature is very difficult to see. An exceptionally fine portrait by an author of many novels.
LOT NOTES: Edith Anna ?’none Somerville (2 May 1858 a€“ 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. ?’. Somerville". She wrote in collaboration with her cousin "Martin Ross" (Violet Martin) under the pseudonym "Somerville and Ross". Together they published a series of fourteen stories and novels, the most popular of which were The Real Charlotte, and The Experiences of an Irish R. M., published in 1899.The eldest of eight children, Somerville was born on the island of Corfu, then part of the United States of the Ionian Islands, a British protectorate where her father was stationed. A year later, her father retired to Drishane, Castletownshend, County Cork, where Somerville grew up. She received her primary education at home, and then attended Alexandra College in Dublin. In 1884 she studied art in Paris, and then spent a term at the Westminster School of Art in Dean's Yard, Westminster. At home, riding and painting were her absorbing interests. An exceptionally fine painting with masterful technique displayed in every area of painting.