Phoebe Donovan (1902-1998) She was one of Victor Waddington's stable of artists, showing there regularly in both group and solo shows. She exhibited widely in Dublin with the RHA, the WCSI, IELA, the Oireachtas exhibitions, and annually from 1960-1968 with the Dublin Painters group. She is represented in the National Self-Portrait Collection in Limerick, and a gallery attached to her family home 'Ballymore' in Camolin, Co. Wexford, has a permanent display of her work. Source: Whyte's Auction

Phoebe Donovan (1902-1998) was a flower, landscape and portrait painter born in Wexford who was privately educated and then attended a French school in Wexford. Phoebe first began painting with a local art group and then in Rome, followed by London. Donovan began an official education in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1927 and also attended the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools, exhibiting for the first time in 1931 in the RHA. In 1957, the Dublin Magazine commented on her work, “Her brushwork is more rough and vigorous; her flowers, one feels, are things that have grown, and some real air plays around them”.