Sarah Henrietta Purser

Portrait painter, cultural pioneer, and the first woman elected a full member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

Sarah Henrietta Purser (1848–1943) was one of the most sought-after portrait painters of her generation — capturing Ireland's intellectual class with psychological precision and compositional confidence. She also drove the revival of Irish stained glass. A giant of Irish cultural life.

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Irish portrait painting by Sarah Henrietta Purser showing Kathleen Behan a young woman in three-quarter profile