Lot 108: Frances Livesay (fl.1869-81) ALPINE VILLAGE signed

Frances Livesay (fl.1869-81) ALPINE VILLAGE signed lower left watercolour 44 by 29cm., 17.5 by 11.25in. Provenance: De Vere's, Dublin, 16 November, 1999, lot 134; Private collection Frances Livesay was a genre and landscape artist who is recorded as having painted from addresses in both the Isle of Wight and Scotland. Her family had Irish connections from Cromwellian times and at one time resided at Rosturk Castle, Co Mayo. Livesay's Irish interior watercolours are recorded in Claudia Kinmonth's, Irish Rural Interiors in Art and provide rare and detailed insights into dwelling in Co Mayo circa 1870s.