Edyth Starkie Portrait Paintings

This marvellous and evocative turn of the century full length relates very closely to Edyth Starkie"s Painting of the spotted dress in The Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris. She is remembered as the Artist and also the wife of the English artist and illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), or as the aunt of the writers Enid (1897-1970)' and Walter Starkie (1894-1976). Edyth Starkie was born at Westcliffe House, County Galway in 1867, the seventh and youngest child of William Robert Starkie. Her artistic leanings were apparent at an early age, for in 1883, when she was sixteen, Frances Starkie put her husband in to rooms in Cork and, with Edyth, left the confined society of Skibbereen for London, where Edyth enrolled at the Slade School. There were few serious opportunities for women to train to become painters in Ireland. The Royal Hibernian Academy, for example, did not admit women until 1893. Other aspiring young women artists whose families could afford to do so, such as Edith Somerville...