Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, English, 1890-1978
Title: A Ballynakill Woman
Date: 1924
Medium: Etching on wove cream paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 27.8 x 21.5 cm
Plate: 13.7 x 10.5 cm
Signed: lower right (under the image, in graphite): G.L. Brockhurst
upper left (in the plate): G.L. Brockhurst
Credit Line: Purchased, 2009
Object Number: NGI.2009.7
DescriptionBrockhurst, an English painter and etcher, lived in Ireland between 1915 and 1919. Along with A Connemara Peasant, this print relates directly to the artist’s interest in Irish subjects while offering a powerful visual reference to the people of the West of Ireland in the early twentieth century. Two other recently acquired etchings by Brockhurst include Portrait of Oliver St John Gogarty, 1939 (NGI 2006.6), and Maureen, 1923 (NGI 2006.7), after an oil painting entitled Ireland, 1916 (Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow).
ProvenanceBrockhurst Estate Sale; purchased, Private Collection, UK; Private Collection; purchased, Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2 March 2009, lot 173
InscriptionOn verso: Produce of England