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    • Helen Mabel Trevor (Irish, 1831-1900)
      Mar. 31, 2021

      Helen Mabel Trevor (Irish, 1831-1900)

      Est: £1,000 - £1,500

      Helen Mabel Trevor (Irish, 1831-1900) Helen Mabel Trevor (Irish, 1831-1900) 'A little Medusa' - portrait of a young girl in a blue shirt signed 'Helen Mabel Trevor' l.l., inscribed 'A little Medusa, Venice' u.r., oil on canvas 43 x 30cm

      Sworders
    • Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900)A Little French GirlOil on canvasSigned. Title inscribed on label versoBorn in Loughbrickland, Co. Down in 1831 Helen Mabel Trevor showed a talent for drawing as a child, and her father Edward Hill Trevor of Lisnagea
      May. 31, 2017

      Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900)A Little French GirlOil on canvasSigned. Title inscribed on label versoBorn in Loughbrickland, Co. Down in 1831 Helen Mabel Trevor showed a talent for drawing as a child, and her father Edward Hill Trevor of Lisnagea

      Est: €1,000 - €1,500

      Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900)A Little French GirlOil on canvasSigned. Title inscribed on label versoBorn in Loughbrickland, Co. Down in 1831 Helen Mabel Trevor showed a talent for drawing as a child, and her father Edward Hill Trevor of Lisnageard House, set up a studio for her. In the 1850s she exhibited portraits and animals studies at the Royal Hibernian Academy.In her forties, after the death of her father, she began to study art formally at the Royal Academy Schools, London, 1877-1881. Then began a long period of travel and residence on the Continent with her sister Rose. They visited Brittany and Normandy c.1880-1883, working variously at the artists’ colonies of Pont-Aven, Douarnenez and Concarneau in Finistere, and at Trouville. Helen painted several studies of elderly women and children in a Realistic manner, and landscapes in the open air. The Trevor sisters lived in Italy, 1883-c.1889, visiting Florence, Assisi, Perugia, Venice and Rome, Helen copying Old Master paintings in museums, and painting genre scenes of Italian life.The Trevors moved to Paris in 1889, and this became their base during the 1890s. Now nearly sixty, Helen attended classes in the ateliers of Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner, and in 1894 of Luc-Olivier Merson. She painted in the artists’ colony of St. Ives in Cornwall, c.1893 and Concarneau, in Brittany 1895-96, and at Antibes in the South of France, 1897.Trevor exhibited regularly at the RHA and at the Paris Salon, 1889-1899, gaining honourable mention there in 1898. After her death in Paris in 1900, two of her paintings, of Breton or Normandy peasant subjects, were bequeathed to the National Gallery of Ireland, and Rose presented a Self-Portrait by Helen. Another Breton painting ‘The Young Eve’ is in the collection of the Ulster Museum, Belfast.

      Adam's
    • Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900) Children Playing in a Barn Oil on canvas, 52 x 64cm (20½'' x 25¼'') Signed Exhibited: ''Irish women artists 1870 - 1970'' Summer loan show Adams Dublin and Ava Gallery July - Sept 2014 Cat. No. 5 Literature: ''Irish
      Dec. 03, 2014

      Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900) Children Playing in a Barn Oil on canvas, 52 x 64cm (20½'' x 25¼'') Signed Exhibited: ''Irish women artists 1870 - 1970'' Summer loan show Adams Dublin and Ava Gallery July - Sept 2014 Cat. No. 5 Literature: ''Irish

      Est: €15,000 - €20,000

      Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900) Children Playing in a Barn Oil on canvas, 52 x 64cm (20½'' x 25¼'') Signed Exhibited: ''Irish women artists 1870 - 1970'' Summer loan show Adams Dublin and Ava Gallery July - Sept 2014 Cat. No. 5 Literature: ''Irish women artists 1870 - 1970'' 2014 illustrated P7 Born in Loughbrickland, Co. Down in 1831, Helen Mabel Trevor showed a talent for drawing as a child, and her father Edward Hill Trevor of Lisnageard House set up a studio for her. In the 1850s she exhibited portraits and animal studies at the Royal Hibernian Academy. After the death of her father, she began to study art formally at the Royal Academy Schools, London 1877-1881. With her sister Rose, she visited Brittany and Normandy c.1880-1883, working variously at the artists' colonies of Pont-Aven, Doarnenez and Concarneau in Finistere, and at Trouville. Helen painted several studies of elderly women and children in a Realistic manner, and landscapes in the open air. The Trevor sisters lived in Italy 1883-c.1889, Helen copying Old Master paintings in museums and painting genre scenes of Italian life. They then moved to Paris in 1889 and this became their base during the 1890s. Trevor exhibited regularly at the RHA and at the Paris Salon, 1889-1899, gaining honourable mention there in 1898. Among the artist's favourite subjects were paintings of children. Here, rather than showing the children facing us, as in her other pictures such as 'The Young Eve' 1882 (Ulster Museum, Belfast) and 'Two Breton Girls' (ex. 'The Irish Impressionists 1984, no.3) Trevor is daring in her composition. The children face away from us and prominence is given to their hob-nailed boots and rough clothes, suggesting they are working children, yet they also appear clean and well fed. Their appearance suggests they might be Irish or English, rather than Continental, children, perhaps observed at St. Ives in 1893. The broad, loose style of the picture, with paint applied in bold swatches, suggest that this is a late work by Trevor. Yet there are echoes in subject and pose of humble pictures of children by Realist artists of an earlier generation, for example Francoise Bonvin's 'The Young Savoyard' 1845, and Pierre-Edouard's 'The Little Cook' 1858. Irish artist Walter Osborne also featured country children in rough working clothes and boots, as for instance in 'The Poachers' 1884-5 and 'Primary Education'1885. But Trevor eschews the Social Realism of these earlier artists, and indeed of her earlier work, for a subject which she loved, a gently observed scene of children. Julian Campbell

      Adam's
    • HELEN MABLE TREVOR (Irish, 1831-1900). WAIF, signed and located "Paris" upper right and inscribed with title verso. Oil on canvas.
      Sep. 21, 2014

      HELEN MABLE TREVOR (Irish, 1831-1900). WAIF, signed and located "Paris" upper right and inscribed with title verso. Oil on canvas.

      Est: $500 - $700

      HELEN MABLE TREVOR (Irish, 1831-1900). WAIF, signed and located "Paris" upper right and inscribed with title verso. Oil on canvas - Framed, 17 in. x 13 in.

      Sloans & Kenyon
    • Helen Mabel Trevor RHA (1831-1900) The Old House, Pont-Aven
      Apr. 29, 2013

      Helen Mabel Trevor RHA (1831-1900) The Old House, Pont-Aven

      Est: €4,000 - €6,000

      Helen Mabel Trevor RHA (1831-1900) The Old House, Pont-Aven oil on canvas h:66  w:46.60 in.

      Morgan O'Driscoll
    • Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900) Race to the Bottom
      May. 30, 2012

      Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900) Race to the Bottom

      Est: €10,000 - €15,000

      Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900) Race to the Bottom of the Bowl Oil on canvas, 66 x 71cm (26 x 28'') Signed and dated 1892 Helen Mabel Trevor was born near Loughbrickland, Co Down. She attended the Royal Academy Schools in London in the late 1870s, and then the Académie Julian in Paris. She exhibited in Dublin, London and Paris, receiving 'honourable mention' in the Salon in 1898. She was a genre and portrait painter, who excelled at painting children, producing many charming, warm pictures of them throughout her life. As well as many urban scenes of Paris, she travelled to Brittany and Normandy from 1881, and kept a delightfully illustrated journal on her travels. After six years in Italy, from 1883 to 1889, she and her sister, Rose, returned to Paris. She resumed her visits to Brittany and added Cornwall to her regular itinerary but she had a particular empathy for Breton people, their customs and traditions. Here are two young chubby-cheeked children, and a black cat with an arched back. The girls are feeding themselves from a rough earthenware bowl, with a pewter spoon. They wear simple peasant clothing in earthy blues and greys, and close-fitting white bonnets. The older girl holds back to allow her little sister to dip her spoon into the dish. They are totally engrossed in their goûter. The square format frames the children engagingly. The painting is free and fluid with occasional touches of impasto, and there is a stong sense of tactility. These Breton children recur in Trevor's work two or three years later, when she painted Two Breton Girls, the same children, in school (shown in The Irish Impressionists exhibition in the National Gallery, 1984). Dr Niamh O'Sullivan, May 2012

      Adam's
    • Helen Mable Trevor (British, 1831-1900) Two young children playing in a barn,
      Mar. 10, 2009

      Helen Mable Trevor (British, 1831-1900) Two young children playing in a barn,

      Est: £700 - £1,000

      Two young children playing in a barn, signed, oil on canvas, 52 x 64cm (20 1/2 x 25 3/16in).

      Bonhams
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