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Born at Coolock House, Co. Dublin, Helen Colvill studied art privately
under William Bingham Guinness and May Manning. A prominent member
of the WCSI, she exhibited with them for over fifty years, from
1892 onwards. She also showed at the RHA between 1920 and 1947 and
with the Royal Society of Artists and the Society of Women Artists.
Colville typically painted watercolour landscapes which Patricia
Butler has called "competent and attractive". Represented
in the collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
and the Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Reference: Patricia A. Butler, Three Hundred Years of Irish Watercolours
and
Drawings, London: Orion Publishing, 1997, p.178. |