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Purser, Sarah H(enrietta)
(b Dún Laoghaire, 22 March 1848; d Dublin, 7 Aug 1943). Irish painter and patron. She studied in Dublin and briefly in Paris, where she attended the Académie Julian (1878–9), developing a vigorous technique and realist style. She often revisited Paris and knew such artists as Degas and Forain. She befriended the Swiss artist Louise C. Breslau (correspondence in Dublin, N. Lib., Purser MSS) as well as Mariya Bashkirtseva, who described Purser as ‘peintre et philosophe’. From 1872 she exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 1879 began to receive favourable reviews for her paintings of peasants and urchins (e.g. the Gardener’s Daughter, c. 1885; Washington, DC, Georgetown U. A. Col.). In 1881 a Parisian friend, the singer Maria Feller, posed for Le Petit déjeuner (Dublin, N.G.), a small picture full of atmosphere and personality. Such works as Lady with a Rattle (1885; Dublin, N.G.) show her lively handling of paint.
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