Muriel Brandt
Muriel Brandt was born in Dublin. She studied at Belfast College of Art and later attended the Royal College of Art in London on a scholarship where she studied for three years and was elected Associate Royal College of Art in 1937. She married and settled in Dublin. Her career focused around her mural painting, portraiture and landscapes working mainly through oil and watercolour. She painted many notables in Dublin including Sir Alfred Chester Beatty and George O'Brien, and was commended for her ability to capture likeness by her contemporary artist James Nolan RHA who said “she was a compulsive draughtsman and sketched like lightning, achieving in minutes those likenesses of her contemporaries".
She also received major public commissions, the first of which was the painting of seven panels in the Franciscan church of Adam and Eve on Merchant's Quay, Dublin. The sketches of this commission are now housed at National Gallery of Ireland. As most of her works were commissioned portraits or murals, she did not have many opportunities to express her own artistic flair. When she did paint, be it in drawings or watercolour, se was confident and self assured of her subject and her ability to do the subject justice “with sympathy but not sentimentality."
She was an elected member of Royal Hibernian Academy and exhibited with the institution for over forty years.
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She also received major public commissions, the first of which was the painting of seven panels in the Franciscan church of Adam and Eve on Merchant's Quay, Dublin. The sketches of this commission are now housed at National Gallery of Ireland. As most of her works were commissioned portraits or murals, she did not have many opportunities to express her own artistic flair. When she did paint, be it in drawings or watercolour, se was confident and self assured of her subject and her ability to do the subject justice “with sympathy but not sentimentality."
She was an elected member of Royal Hibernian Academy and exhibited with the institution for over forty years.
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