Countess Markievicz?, Constance Gore-Booth (Landscapes, Portraits) (1868-1927)

Born in London, the eldest child of Sir Henry Gore-Booth of Lissadell, Co Sligo, she showed an early interest in drawing which was further stimulated when Sarah Purser came to paint her portrait when she was 12. Six years later, she spent six months in Florence taking drawing lessons, but made no further plans until 1893, when she studied at the Slade School of Art, combining her growing love of painting (including periodic plein-air painting trips to Sligo) with her role as a young aristocrat.

In 1898, she went to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, meeting Paul Henry as well as the talented and exotic portraitist Count Casimir Dunin de M...