Grace Henry HRHA (10 February 1868 – 11 August 1953) was a Scottish landscape artist, who spent a large part of her career painting in Ireland.
This piece shows the influence of fellow artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whom she met in Paris through her husband.
[2] During this time, Henry painted numerous night scenes, including Achill cottages (Hugh Lane Gallery).
[1] A well known work by Henry is Top of the hill on display in the Limerick City Gallery of Art, which shows a group of island women.
[4] Around 1920, Grace had a romantic association with Stephen Gwynn who was an important political, cultural and literary figure from the lost world of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Ireland.
Her work was regularly displayed at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), and she had solo shows at the Waddington and Dawson galleries.
[4] Her body of work was re-examined in the 1970s, which led to wider public recognition and her inclusion in a number of exhibitions such as The paintings of Paul and Grace Henry at the Hugh Lane Gallery in 1991.
She is deemed to be a much bolder painter than her husband, incorporating more elements of the modernist movement, as evident in The long grey road of Disting (1915).