Beatrice Elvery
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Beatrice Moss Elvery was an Irish
stained-glass artist and painter
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She was the second daughter of a Dublin businessman whose family had originated from Spain where they were silk merchants. Her family owned the original Elverys Sports
store in Wicklow Street, Dublin. She attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where William Orpen
(1878-1931) taught painting and later used Beatrice as a model. Of his pupil, Orpen wrote that she had "many gifts, much temperament and great ability. Her only fault was that the transmission of her thoughts from her brain to paper or canvas, clay or stained glass became so easy to her that all was said in a few hours. Nothing on earth could make her go on and try to improve on her first translation of her thought." She remained a friend and correspondent of Orpen until shortly before his death in 1931.
When Sarah Purser
(1848-1943) founded her studio An Túr Gloine
(Tower of Glass) in 1903, she invited Beatrice Elvery to be one of the designers and her first commission of six windows was installed in the Convent of Mercy, Enniskillen
, Co. Fermanagh
in 1905.
Beatrice married Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy
in 1912 and they settled in London, returning to Ireland at the end of the war when she then concentrated on painting. She had three children Patrick
, Bridget (known as Biddy) and Michael. Bridget was killed by a fire bomb in the Blitz
.
The couple moved in the highest literary circles including Yates, Shaw, and D.H. Lawrence. Elvery was also a friend and correspondent of the short story writer Katherine Mansfield
. Elvery painted a picture of Mansfield in Elvery's garden. This painting is in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Elvery's Éire (1907) was a landmark painting promoting the idea of an independent Irish state. She also produced numerous illustrations for children's books.
add: Auto biog. "To-day we will only gossip" by Beatrice Lady Glenavy, published by Constable & Co of London(WC2) in 1964
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
stained-glass artist and painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
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She was the second daughter of a Dublin businessman whose family had originated from Spain where they were silk merchants. Her family owned the original Elverys Sports
Elverys Sports
Elverys Sports is a sports store chain in Ireland. Founded in 1847, it is Ireland's oldest sports store. Elverys sell a large range of sports clothes and equipment, with top brands and Elverys' own brand goods.-History:...
store in Wicklow Street, Dublin. She attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where William Orpen
William Orpen
Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA was an Irish portrait painter, who worked mainly in London...
(1878-1931) taught painting and later used Beatrice as a model. Of his pupil, Orpen wrote that she had "many gifts, much temperament and great ability. Her only fault was that the transmission of her thoughts from her brain to paper or canvas, clay or stained glass became so easy to her that all was said in a few hours. Nothing on earth could make her go on and try to improve on her first translation of her thought." She remained a friend and correspondent of Orpen until shortly before his death in 1931.
When Sarah Purser
Sarah Purser
-Early life:She was born in Kingstown in County Dublin, and raised in Dungarvan, County Waterford. She was educated in Switzerland and afterwards studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and in Paris at the Académie Julian.-Artist:...
(1848-1943) founded her studio An Túr Gloine
An Túr Gloine
An Túr Gloine was a cooperative studio for stained glass conceived in late 1901 and established January 1903 at 24 Pembroke Street, Dublin, Ireland, on the site of two former tennis courts. It was active throughout the first half of the 20th century...
(Tower of Glass) in 1903, she invited Beatrice Elvery to be one of the designers and her first commission of six windows was installed in the Convent of Mercy, Enniskillen
Enniskillen
Enniskillen is a town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is located almost exactly in the centre of the county between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne. It had a population of 13,599 in the 2001 Census...
, Co. Fermanagh
County Fermanagh
Fermanagh District Council is the only one of the 26 district councils in Northern Ireland that contains all of the county it is named after. The district council also contains a small section of County Tyrone in the Dromore and Kilskeery road areas....
in 1905.
Beatrice married Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy
Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy
Charles Henry Gordon Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy succeeded his father James to become 2nd Baron Glenavy in March 1931. He was in turn succeeded as the 3rd Baron by his son, the satirist and television personality Patrick Campbell....
in 1912 and they settled in London, returning to Ireland at the end of the war when she then concentrated on painting. She had three children Patrick
Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
Patrick Gordon Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy , known as Patrick Campbell, was an Irish journalist, humorist and television personality....
, Bridget (known as Biddy) and Michael. Bridget was killed by a fire bomb in the Blitz
Bloody Friday (1972)
Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast on 21 July 1972. Twenty-two bombs exploded in the space of eighty minutes, killing nine people and injuring 130....
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The couple moved in the highest literary circles including Yates, Shaw, and D.H. Lawrence. Elvery was also a friend and correspondent of the short story writer Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and...
. Elvery painted a picture of Mansfield in Elvery's garden. This painting is in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Elvery's Éire (1907) was a landmark painting promoting the idea of an independent Irish state. She also produced numerous illustrations for children's books.
External links
- Éire by Beatrice Elvery
- A picture of Miss Elvery by William Orpen
- Katherine Mansfield and S.S. Koteliansky in the garden, 1920 by Beatrice Elvery, oil on canvas
add: Auto biog. "To-day we will only gossip" by Beatrice Lady Glenavy, published by Constable & Co of London(WC2) in 1964