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INTERIOR OF CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN, 1911 Letitia Marion Hamilton RHA (1878 - 1964)
Signature: signed with initials lower right; with typed label on reverse; also with original Dawson Gallery, exhibition label on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 76 by 56cm., 30 by 22in. Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Private collection; Godolphin Gallery, Dublin, 1982; Private collection Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1911, catalogue no. 292 (£5-5-0); Godolphin Gallery, Dublin, November, 1982, catalogue no. 8 Literature: Ann M. Stewart (ed.), Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts: Index of Exhibitors and their Works 1826-1979, 3 vols., Manton Publishing, Dublin, 1985, vol. II, p. 49 Interior of Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, was the fifth work ever exhibited by Letitia Marion Hamilton at the RHA, 1911 being her third year of exhibiting there. While the artist’s style later devel... loped a strong use of vigorous impasto, this work illustrates the more conservative beginnings of her lengthy career. With regards to the Godolphin Gallery exhibition The Irish Independent remarked on “…the reverent atmosphere…” of this work in their article on 20 November, 1982 more