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1909 - 1981. Known for: Portrait, landscape, and mural painting.
Known for her portraits, landscapes and murals, Muriel Brandt studied at the Belfast College of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London where she studied for three years.... Read full biography
Known for her portraits, landscapes and murals, Muriel Brandt studied at the Belfast College of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London where she studied for three years. Brandt's first major commission was seven paintings for the Church of the Franciscan Friars on... Read full biography
Known for her portraits, landscapes and murals, Muriel Brandt studied at the Belfast College of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London where she studied for three years. Brandt's first major commission was seven paintings for the Church of the Franciscan Friars on Merchant's Quay in Dublin, the sketch for which is now housed in the National Gallery of Ireland. Brandt's forty year long association with the Royal Hibernian Academy began in 1938, and in 1948 she was... Read full biography
Known for her portraits, landscapes and murals, Muriel Brandt studied at the Belfast College of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London where she studied for three years. Brandt's first major commission was seven paintings for the Church of the Franciscan Friars on Merchant's Quay in Dublin, the sketch for which is now housed in the National Gallery of Ireland. Brandt's forty year long association with the Royal Hibernian Academy began in 1938, and in 1948 she was appointed an associate. In 1961 she became a full member. Brandt's skill of effortlessly capturing likeness was commented on by fellow painter James Nolan RHA, "she was a compulsive draughtsman and sketched like lightning, achieving in minutes those... Read full biography
Known for her portraits, landscapes and murals, Muriel Brandt studied at the Belfast College of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London where she studied for three years. Brandt's first major commission was seven paintings for the Church of the Franciscan Friars on Merchant's Quay in Dublin, the sketch for which is now housed in the National Gallery of Ireland. Brandt's forty year long association with the Royal Hibernian Academy began in 1938, and in 1948 she was appointed an associate. In 1961 she became a full member. Brandt's skill of effortlessly capturing likeness was commented on by fellow painter James Nolan RHA, "she was a compulsive draughtsman and sketched like lightning, achieving in minutes those likenesses of her contemporaries."
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Known for her portraits, landscapes and murals, Muriel Brandt studied at the Belfast College of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London where she studied for three years. Brandt's first major commission was seven paintings for the Church of the Franciscan Friars on Merchant's Quay in Dublin, the sketch for which is now housed in the National Gallery of Ireland.
Brandt's forty year long association with the Royal Hibernian Academy began in 1938, and in 1948 she was appointed an associate. In 1961 she became a full member.
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