Ernest Columba Hayes - Artist Info

About Ernest Columba Hayes

  • Biography

    A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy* while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life.

    He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associate of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London.

    From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club; aWhyte's Auction
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