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A portrait of Mary Brenen ( Newgent) at 26 yrs. By Constance Markiewicz. Mary Brennen was also an active member of the Irish womens army movement (Comamanban) and was drawn in the pencil sense by Constance Markiewicz at a fair in southeren Ireland in 1923 at a fund raising event. Sketches of this period and from the same fair have realised over $3,500.00 at auction in the past few years> This portrait therefore is of the owners mother and is more special than she realises.
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Constance Markiewicz was an Irish artist, but beyond that a Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician who held a position and reputation as a revolutionary nationalist and suffragette in a difficult period of history.. Constance was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also the first woman in Europe to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922). The biography and history of one of Eires finest femail revolutionaries is well covered on the internet and it is not necessary to repeat it here. The specialness of this work of art however is well worth its publication. |
It made $3,200.00 |
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David Freeman © 2008 The Freemanart Consultancy
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Photographs: Jackie Freeman Photography
