Sarah Henrietta Purser, Irish, 1848-1943
Title: Mrs Moore, Power's Court, Dublin
Medium: Charcoal, bodycolour (white highlights) on buff laid coloured paper
Dimensions:
46.4 x 34 cm
Credit Line: Purchased, 2009
Object Number: NGI.2009.3
DescriptionThis portrait study executed from life depicts an elderly woman whose careworn features, highlighted with touches of white chalk, are sensitively realised. The artist captures the dignified countenance of the sitter, who stares pensively out at the viewer. Powers Court was an impoverished area located between the grand Georgian houses of Upper and Lower Mount Street, mostly inhabited by servants from the big houses. It was a short distance from the artist’s home in Mespil House.
ProvenanceCollection of Sarah Henrietta Purser; Mespil House, 1943, Sarah Henrietta Purser Sale; purchased by the Artist's sister-in-law; purchased, Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2 March 2009, lot 119
Inscriptionupper right: 'Mrs Moore, 24 Powers Court'
on verso: FLT 64609
on verso: FLT 64609