Kathleen (1880) Fox Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Kathleen (1880) Fox Art Value Price Guide

May. 25, 2026
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) PONT DE SULLY, PARIS
Est: €5,000 - €7,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) PONT DE SULLY, PARIS oil on canvas signed lower left h:24 w:36 in. Raised in Glasthule Lodge, Glenageary, Co. Dublin, Kathleen Fox attended Loreto Abbey in Dalkey before entering the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art (DMSA), where she studied under William Orpen, becoming one of his star pupils and later working as his studio assistant for a time. Orpen is noted as commenting on the calibre of students in the DMSA at that time, "The school was really turning out good work, and there was a lot of promising youth - James Slater, John [Seán] Keating, Miss Crilly, Miss Fox, Miss O'Kelly and Whelan and Touey, all with talent."[1] Fox was skilled across several disciplines; painting, woodcarving, stained glass (an example of which can be found in St. Joseph's church, Glenageary), silver, costume design, enamelling, the latter for which she won a gold medal in 1908. She first exhibited with the RHA in 1911 (Science and Power, Collection of the Hugh Lane, Dublin) before travelling to Paris and then to Bruges. By 1916 she had returned to Dublin (with an address at 34 Wicklow St.) and recorded firsthand the events of the Easter Rising in her painting The Arrest (Niland Collection, Sligo). It depicts Countess Markievicz in military dress standing beside Michael Mallin during the surrender of the Irish Citizen Army at the College of Surgeons. Fox sketched the scene as it unfolded, later completing a large canvas (which includes a self-portrait) in secret before sending it to New York for safe keeping in 1917. After its rediscovery in the 1940s it was returned to the artist in Dublin, from whom it was acquired by Sligo County Library and Museum in 1962. Her activities during the Rising garnered her the name 'little rebel' among her contemporaries. During WWI Fox had a studio in London and there she met and married Lt. Cyril Pym. A daughter was born in 1918 shortly after Pym was killed in action. She relocated to Nice and continued to exhibit in Dublin and London as well as France. In 1921 her work was shown at the New English Art Club, the National Portrait Society, the RA and the RHA. At this time, she also painted a portrait of the influential Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne, the Most Rev. Dr Daniel Mannix (Collection of the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin). In the mid-1920s she returned to Dublin and on her mother's death inherited Brookfield, a large house in Milltown. Between the years 1924 and 1943 she did not submit any work to the RHA, however she was a sought-after and successful portraitist (Grace Gifford and Lord and Lady Powerscourt were among her sitters) both in Ireland and England. Her later work of the 1940s and 1950s comprised mainly interior scenes and still lifes overshadowing in some ways the more dynamic work of her earlier years. When her aforementioned painting, Science and Power, was exhibited in 1911 her address inscribed verso was 20 Rue Chalgrin, Ave. de Bois de Boulognes, Paris, near the Arc de Triomphe; approximately 5.5km from Pont de Sully. The cast-iron and stone Pont de Sully was built between 1874 and 1876 and connects the Île Saint-Louis to the Right and Left Banks. In the 1900s, the banks of the Seine near Pont de Sully acted as busy industrial sites where building materials were unloaded from barges, often appearing as piles on the quays as seen in the present work. Fox's dynamic composition here shows carts with horses feeding while several workmen shovel sand which has been deposited quayside by a large crane. The scene is watched by a curious crowd that line the bridge and peer down at the spectacle. The painting exudes the characteristic excitement of Fox's early work with the bridge - in a 'patriotic' green - calling to mind her Dublin scene The Four Courts, c.1922 (Collection of University College Dublin)[2] which includes the O'Donovan Rossa or Richmond Bridge as it was previously known. Testament to the importance of Kathleen Fox's work within the canon of 20th Century Irish art, in 2025 the National Gallery of Ireland acquired for its permanent collection a theatrical, Orpenesque painting by her, Portrait of a Woman (Self-Portrait), c.1917. That work was formerly in the collection of Irish-American art collector and Federal Judge the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan Jr. (1920-2000). Adelle Hughes April 2026 FOOTNOTES: [1] Steward, James C., Ed., When Time Began to Rant and Rage, Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland, Merrell Holberton, London, 1998, p.154 [2] Steward, James C., Ed., When Time Began to Rant and Rage, Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland, Merrell Holberton, London, 1998, p.47 (Fig. 14)
Whyte's
May. 28, 2025
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) Flower study with Poppies in a Glass Vase Oil on canvas, 75 x 50cm (29½ x 19½) Signed lower right Provenance: Collection of the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan Jr., thence by descent
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) Flower study with Poppies in a Glass Vase Oil on canvas, 75 x 50cm (29½ x 19½) Signed lower right Provenance: Collection of the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan Jr., thence by descent
Adam's
Dec. 04, 2024
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) Flower study with Poppies in a Glass Vase Oil on canvas, 75 x 50cm (29½ x 19½) Signed lower right Provenance: Collection of the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan Jr., thence by descent
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) Flower study with Poppies in a Glass Vase Oil on canvas, 75 x 50cm (29½ x 19½) Signed lower right Provenance: Collection of the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan Jr., thence by descent
Adam's
Dec. 04, 2024
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) Woman on a Beach Oil on canvas, 100 x 70cm (39¼ x 27½) Signed lower right Provenance: Collection of the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan Jr., thence by descent The daughter of Captain Henry Charles Fox of the King’s
Est: €8,000 - €12,000
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) Woman on a Beach Oil on canvas, 100 x 70cm (39¼ x 27½) Signed lower right Provenance: Collection of the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan Jr., thence by descent The daughter of Captain Henry Charles Fox of the King’s Dragoon Guards, Kathleen Fox came of an Irish Catholic upper middle class family with a British Army tradition. She was brought up at Glenageary Hall, Co. Dublin and went to school at St. Mary’s, Ascot and Loreto Abbey Convent, Dalkey. She entered the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1903 and was at first attracted by the crafts of fine metalwork and enamelling. Under the guidance of Oswald Reeves she won top prizes for her metalwork in London at the National Competitions of 1908 and 1909. She also worked on painted china, carved wood, silver, costume design and stained glass, which were aspects of the strong arts and crafts revival in Ireland. However, her interest in painting was to be fired by the teaching in Dublin of Sir William Orpen, only two years her senior, who encouraged her and for whom she had a high regard. It was Orpen’s style of tonal realism acquired at the Slade School of Art, which he passed on to her and which is evident in the present work. In 1910 she was admitted to the RHA Life School. She exhibited for the first time at the RHA in 1911 with Science and Power (Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery), sometime after which she left to paint in Paris and Bruges. Later she moved to Nice where she continued to paint and exhibited in France, London and Dublin. In 1921 her work was shown at the New English Art Club, the National Portrait Society, the Royal Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy. She returned to Dublin in the early twenties and later inherited the family home in Milltown, Dublin where she painted many interior views. For the next twenty years she worked as a highly successful portrait painter in Ireland and England but made no further submissions to the RHA until 1944. In her later paintings there is a significant and enduring transformation in terms of subject matter. Gone is the spirited work of some twenty years earlier, to be replaced by highly competent flower-studies which she exhibited throughout the 1940s and 50s and for which today, perhaps unfairly, she is best known. She died in 1963.
Adam's
Jun. 02, 2021
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) - June
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) June Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 74.5cm, (25 x 29.5) Signed Starting Bid: € 1400
Adam's
Dec. 02, 2019
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) VIEW FROM A WINDOW, WINTER SCENE
Est: €800 - €1,200
signed lower left
Whyte's
Nov. 21, 2018
KATHLEEN FOX | Self Portrait with Palette
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Dec. 05, 2016
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Still Life - Flowers in Vases
Est: €1,000 - €1,500
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Still Life - Flowers in Vases oil on canvas signed lower right h:50 w:63.50 cm. Provenance: Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin (Framing Label Verso); Collection of John G Sisk, Dublin; Thence by descent
Morgan O'Driscoll
Dec. 07, 2015
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Old Bruges
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Old Bruges oil on canvas signed lower left & titled lower right h:40.50 w:30.50 cm. Provenance: Private Collection
Morgan O'Driscoll
Nov. 30, 2015
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) STILL LIFE, FLOWERS, 1904
Est: €800 - €1,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) STILL LIFE, FLOWERS, 1904 watercolour signed and dated in pencil lower right h:28 w:18 in. Provenance: de Veres, 30 November 2005, lot 111; Private collection
Whyte's
Sep. 30, 2015
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963)StatuettesOil on canvas
Est: €600 - €1,000
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963)StatuettesOil on canvas, 38.4 x 48.5cm (15¼ x 19¼)SignedProvenance: J. J. Gorry Trade Label verso dated (19)21; handwritten artists label verso.Exhibited: 1921, Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition Catalogue No. 196
Adam's
Apr. 20, 2015
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Still Life - Vase of Flowers and Figurine
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Still Life - Vase of Flowers and Figurine oil on canvas signed lower right h:76.50 w:55.50 cm. Provenance: Private Collection
Morgan O'Driscoll
Oct. 01, 2014
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Ruins of the Four Courts
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Ruins of the Four Courts Oil on canvas, 51 x 68.5cm (20 x 27'') Signed and dated 1922 Provenance: Purchased by the current owners' father from Leo Smith, The Dawson Gallery, Dublin 1943; Deepwell, Blackrock, Co. Dublin Exhibited:''Irish Women Artists 1870-1970'', Adam's, Dublin, July 2014, AVA Gallery, Clandeboye Aug-Sept 2014, Cat. No.17; 1923 RHA Annual Exhibition Cat. No. 243 priced £52.10.0 The Crawford Gallery, Cork, May - August 2006 ''Ireland: Her People and Landscape'' The AVA Gallery, June - Sept 2012, Cat. No. 14 Literature: ''Whipping the Herring'', published by The Crawford Gallery 2006. Full page illustration p209; ''One Hundred Years of Irish Art - A Millennium Presentation'' by Eamonn Mallie p222 Full page Illustration p223; ''Ireland: Her People and Landscape'' Exhibition Catalogue, full page illustration p21; ''Irish Women Artists 1870-1970'', illustrated p27 The daughter of Captain Henry Charles Fox of the King's Dragoon Guards, Kathleen Fox came of an Irish Catholic upper middle class family with a British Army tradition. She was brought up at Glenageary Hall, Co. Dublin and went to school at St. Mary's, Ascot and Loreto Abbey Convent, Dalkey. She entered the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1903, a decision which, given her background , was probably opposed by her family, but she was independent-minded, a characteristic which became particularly pronounced when later she earned the nick-name ''the little rebel'', because of her sympathies with those involved in the 1916 Easter Rising. While at the Metropolitan School, she was at first attracted by the crafts of fine metalwork and enamelling. Under the guidance of Oswald Reeves she won top prizes for her metalwork in London at the National Competitions of 1908 and 1909. She also worked on painted china, carved wood, silver, costume design and stained glass, which were aspects of the strong arts and crafts revival in Ireland. However, her interest in painting was to be fired by the teaching in Dublin of Sir William Orpen, only two years her senior, who encouraged her and for whom she had a high regard. It was Orpen's style of tonal realism acquired at the Slade School of Art, which he passed on to her. In 1910 she was admitted to the RHA Life School. She exhibited for the first time at the RHA in 1911 with Science and Power (Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery), sometime after which she left to paint in Paris and Bruges. She was back in Dublin in 1916 and became known as the ''Artist of the Rising''. She went openly into the most dangerous centres in Dublin to capture in her paintings the spirit and personalities of the Rising. She also carried messages between the leaders. During the First World War Kathleen Fox kept a studio in London where she met her husband Lieutenant Cyril Pym who was killed in action. There a daughter was born in 1918. Later she moved to Nice where she continued to paint and exhibited in France, London and Dublin. In 1921 her work was shown at the New English Art Club, the National Portrait Society, the Royal Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy. She returned to Dublin in the early twenties and later inherited the family home in Milltown, Dublin where she painted many interior views. For the next twenty years she worked as a highly successful portrait painter in Ireland and England but made not further submissions to the RHA until 1944. In her later paintings there is a significant and enduring transformation in terms of subject matter. Gone is the spirited work of some twenty years earlier, to be replaced by highly competent flower-studies which she exhibited throughout the 1940s and 50s and for which today, perhaps unfairly, she is best known. She died in 1963. The artist painted this view of the Four Courts shortly after its sacking in 1922 by the artillery fire of the Pro-Treaty forces during the War of Independence. Kathleen Fox must have found it bitterly ironic that the men and women who fought on the side of Pearse and his companions and whom she had portrayed six years earlier had now divided into two warring factions. Interestingly, there exists another, larger ''View of the Four Courts'', (UCD Newman House), undated, but painted by the artist prior to the the destruction of the building. Whereas that picture is tight and academic with a strong emphasis on tonality, this view, depicted after a heavy shower of rain, is painted in a spontaneous, ''impressionistic'' manner full of moist atmosphere.
Adam's
May. 28, 2014
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) Lilac Blossom in a
Est: €1,500 - €2,500
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) Lilac Blossom in a White Vase Oil on canvas, 70 x 59.5cm (27½ x 23½'') Signed Provenance: J.P. Reihill Snr., Deepwell, Blackrock, Co. Dublin Exhibited: Thought to be 'Lilac' exhibited as the RHA Annual Exhibition, 1920, Cat. No. 23 Though typical of the many beautifully rendered flower-pieces for which the artist in later life became renowned, this painting may be Lilac, exhibited at the RHA in 1920. If this is the case, it is certainly one of the earliest examples of her exploration of such subject matter, more usually associated with her career from the 1940s onwards when she returned from London to live at Brookfield, the family home in Milltown. She exhibited such subjects yearly at the RHA until 1957.
Adam's
Dec. 04, 2013
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) When Winter Comes Oil on
Est: €1,000 - €1,500
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) When Winter Comes Oil on board, 44.5 x 29cm (17_ x 11_'') Signed Artists label verso
Adam's
Sep. 25, 2013
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) The Lilies of the Field
Est: €2,000 - €4,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) The Lilies of the Field Oil on canvas, 70 x 89cm (27 x 35'') Signed, inscribed artist's label verso
Adam's
Sep. 25, 2013
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Fog in Milltown Oil on
Est: €1,000 - €2,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Fog in Milltown Oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm (24 x 20'') Signed Provenance: Adam's ''Important Irish Art'' sale, December 2001, where purchased by current owner
Adam's
May. 14, 2013
KATHLEEN FOX RHA 1880-1963 DINING ROOM INTERIOR
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
KATHLEEN FOX RHA 1880-1963 DINING ROOM INTERIOR Oil on canvas, 18" x 25" (46 x 63.5cm), signed K Fox. Kathleen Fox studied art under Sir William Orpen at the Dublin Metropolitan School and acted for a while as Orpen's assistant. From an early age she won several awards, and went on to continue her training in London and Paris where she set up studios. Between 1911 and 1957 she exhibited more than eighty works at the R.H.A. and also exhibited in London and at the Scottish Academy. She was a painter of great skill as can be seen in this beautifully executed interior.
deVeres
Feb. 18, 2013
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Deep in Thought
Est: €600 - €900
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Deep in Thought oil on canvas signed lower left h:60 w:75 in.
Morgan O'Driscoll
Dec. 04, 2012
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Ruins of the Four Courts,
Est: €15,000 - €25,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Ruins of the Four Courts, (1922) Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 68.6cm (20 x 27'') Signed and dated 1922 Provenance: Purchased by the current owners' father from Leo Smith, The Dawson Gallery, Dublin 1943; and thence by descent Exhibited: 1923 RHA Annual Exhibition Cat. No. 243 priced £52.10.0 The Crawford Gallery, Cork, May - August 2006 ''Ireland: Her People and Landscape'' The AVA Gallery, June - Sept 2012, Cat. No. 14 Literature: ''Whipping the Herring'', published by The Crawford Gallery 2006. Full page illustration p209; ''One Hundred Years of Irish Art - A Millennium Presentation'' by Eamonn Mallie p222 Full page Illustration p223; ''Ireland: Her People and Landscape'' Exhibition Catalogue, full page illustration p21 Kathleen Fox was brought up in Anglo-Irish family on the outskirts of Dublin and studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, attracting the attention of William Orpen, whose assistant she eventually became. She first exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1911 before leaving to paint in Paris and Bruges, returning to Dublin in 1916. She moved to Nice at the end of the 1910's but continued to exhibit in London and Dublin as well as France, before returning to Dublin again in the mid 1920's. She was a highly successful portraitist in Ireland and England and well regarded for her flower studies of the 1940's and 50's. A more academic approach to realism was brought to Irish art through William Orpen's teaching at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art from 1902-14. His former studio assistant, Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) painted Ruins of the Four Courts, (1922) which depicts the familiar building from an established viewpoint across the Liffey. What is striking about the work is that within the tranquil scene the dome of Gandon's great building is missing and next to it are the shells of buildings destroyed in the War of Independence. Fox's work belongs to an important strand of early 20th century realist art, one which sought to record the major events of Irish history. This paintings does so in a subtle but compelling manner. Dr. Rósín Kennedy
Adam's
May. 30, 2012
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Interior with Girl Oil on
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Interior with Girl Oil on Canvas 64 x 77 cms Signed
Andersons Art Auctions
Apr. 26, 2010
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Interior with Girl oil on
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Interior with Girl oil on canvas signed lower left (63.5 x 76.25 cm) (25 x 30 in)
Morgan O'Driscoll
Sep. 29, 2008
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) PRIMROSES, 1952 signed
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) PRIMROSES, 1952 signed lower left; inscribed on reverse oil on canvas 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
Whyte's
Sep. 23, 2008
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Still Life with Bust
Est: €600 - €800
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) Still Life with Bust signed lower left (54 x 46 cm) (21.25 x 18 in)
Morgan O'Driscoll
Feb. 25, 2008
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) MIRTH IN CHINA signed
Est: €3,500 - €4,500
Kathleen Fox RHA (1880-1963) MIRTH IN CHINA signed lower right; remains of original label on reverse oil on board 46 by 52cm., 18 by 20.5in. Provenance: Collection of Maurice MacGonigal PRHA; Private collection Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1946, catalogue no. 5
Whyte's
Dec. 04, 2007
Kathleen Fox, (1880-1963) Flowers from a Garden in
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Kathleen Fox, (1880-1963) Flowers from a Garden in July Oil on canvas, 51 x 61cms, (20 x 24") Signed
Adam's
Sep. 25, 2007
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) "Still Life with Flowers"
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
Kathleen Fox (1880-1963) "Still Life with Flowers" Oil on canvas, 30" x 22" (76 x 56cm), signed.
deVeres