Lot 122: Charles MacIver Grierson, RI (1864-1939) HER AIN FIRESIDE, 1899 signed and dated lower left; inscribed with title and original owner's name and

Charles MacIver Grierson, RI (1864-1939) HER AIN FIRESIDE, 1899 signed and dated lower left; inscribed with title and original owner's name and signed again on reverse beneath backing board watercolour 61 by 48cm., 24 by 19in. Provenance: H. Alexander Parsons Esq; Private collection Exhibited: RA, London, 1902, catalogue no. 912 Literature: Notes:Born in Queenstown, now Cobh, Co. Cork, Grierson was the son of a manager with the Cunard steamship company. He was apprenticed to a local architect, William Henry Hill, but abandoned the position in preference for fine art, studying at the Cork School of Art and at the Westminster School in London. He was soon exhibiting with the RA, the RHA, and the RI, of which association he became a member, showing over eighty works with them. His wife, Ethel Davys, was a native of Sligo, and the pair lived there circa 1899-1904 or perhaps later. ( See Snoddy, pp. 210-211). The present work is thought to depict Grierson's wife in their sitting room in George's Street, Sligo, and is in its original gilt frame.