Reposted by Billy Shortall
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A master portraitist & fierce force for culture, painter, stained-glass artist, art activist & founder of An Túr Gloine, Sarah Purser was the first woman admitted to the RHA. She died #OTD 1943 from a stroke precipitated by the 'bad art' on a commemorative stamp. www.dib.ie/biography/pu...