Margaret Clarke (artist)

Margaret Clarke RHA (née Crilley; 29 July 1881 – 31 October 1961) was an Irish portrait painter.

[4] She died thirty years later in Dublin on 31 October 1961, and is buried in the Redford cemetery, Greystones, County Wicklow.

[8] Amongst the portrait commissions Clarke received were ones for Dermod O'Brien, President Éamon de Valera, Archbishop McQuaid, and Lennox Robinson.

[8][9] Clarke spent a great deal of time on the Aran Islands with fellow artist Seán Keating and her husband,[9] from which she produced a number of landscapes and smaller studies.

[9] A critic noted in 1939 that Clarke produced "remarkable drawings in which individuality is caught in a few swift economical lines.