Irish & International Art Auction 5th December 2016 : Click Lot Title for More info & Pictures & Picture for in frame.

signed lower centre & dated 1900

watercolour with bodycolour on paper

23 x 17cm (9 x 7in)

Provenance:

Christie’s, London, 22nd May 1998 Lot 5;

Private Collection

Exhibited:

Chris Beetles Summer Show 1999: No. 34 (label verso)

€5,000-7,000 (£4,347-6,086)

Rose Barton was born in Dublin in 1856. She was cousins with sisters, Eva Henrietta and Letitia Marion Hamilton. She began ex-

hibiting her broad-wash watercolours painting with the Watercolour Society of Ireland (WCSI) in 1872. Rose and her sister Emily

visited Brussels in 1875 where they received tuition in drawing and fine art painting under the French artist, Henri Gervex. There

along with her close friend Mildred Anne Butler she began to study figure painting and figure drawing. In 1879, she joined the local

committee of the Irish Fine Art Society. Afterwards she trained at Paul Jacob Naftel’s art studio in London. Rose like Butler, studied

under Naftel. In 1882 she exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). In 1884, she exhibited at the Royal Academy (RA).

Later, she showed at the Japanese Gallery, the Dudley Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery in London. In 1893, she became an associ-

ate member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, attaining full membership in 1911.