Eileen Murray was born in Templemore Co. Cork and studied painting with Stanhope Forbes at Newlyn, Cornwall. She married Major Stewart Murray in 1908 and lived with him in India where she had considerable success with her painting, winning many medals. She moved back to Mosstown House, Kenagh, Co. Longford after her husband's father tragically drowned in Lough Bawn in 1920. Her husband died shortly afterwards in 1922 leaving Eileen to run the 500 acre estate. Eileen Murray exhibited regularly at the RHA, Dublin Sketching Club and the Belfast Art Society during the 1920s. She continued to live and work at Mosstown until she moved to Killiney in 1947 where she remained until she died in 1962 with many painting trips to Achill, Spain, Italy an...