Caroline Scally - Artist Info

About Caroline Scally

  • Biography

    Caroline Scally was born in 1886. Her father Robert Stein was an engineer, and in 1889 the family moved to Blackrock, where Caroline was educated at the Dominican Convert, Sion Hill. After a period studying at the English Institute at Nymphenburg, Germany she returned to Dublin and enrolled as a student at the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools and at the Metropolitan School of Art where, amongst her fellow students were James Sinton Sleator and Sean Keating.

    Dr SB Kennedy, writing about the artist in an essay for the 2005 Frederick Gallery Retrospective exhibition catalogue, noted that as a student in Dublin in the early 1900s Scally encountered a strict academic approach to picture making, notably at the Metropolitan School where her...

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