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Elizabeth Gray (Irish Artist)
Elizabeth Gray (née Sharpe) (1837 – 29 April 1903) was an Irish artist, etcher, and amateur photographer. Life Elizabeth Sharpe was born in Dublin in 1837 to a distinguished family. Her brother was Richard Sharpe RHA, inventor of the chromograph. Elizabeth was living in Sydney by early 1857. She married Charles Gray on 19 March 1857 in Portland, Victoria. The couple lived at their property at Nareeb Nareeb, near Portland. They had at least three daughters, with the eldest Annie was born on 14 April 1858. Gray died on 29 April 1903. Artistic work Gray worked in watercolour and pen-and-ink, with some of her early work in Australia consists of two watercolours of ''Sydney Town and Harbour'', and ''Sydney Heads'' from 1857. Gray continued to work artistically after her marriage. Her work in pen and ink was on a variety of surfaces, including eggs. Her work ''View of Ferntree Gully'' from 19 February 1860 is on porcelain. She contributed five works to the fourth Annual Exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
