Lot 54: Muriel Brandt RHA (1909-1981) PORTRAIT OF RUTH

Muriel Brandt RHA (1909-1981) PORTRAIT OF RUTH BRANDT, THE ARTIST'S DAUGHTER, c.1942 signed lower centre pen and ink with wash over pencil and heightened in white 36 by 25cm., 14.25 by 9.75in. Muriel Brandt, a Belfast born muralist, portrait artist and landscape painter was educated at Belfast College of Art and on scholarship at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1934-37. In 1935 she married Frank Brandt, a designer in the Electricity Supply Board and a few months prior to sitting her final exams for the ARCA diploma her daughter Ruth, illustrator and etcher, (1936-1989) and the subject of this work, was born. In 1938 she initiated what developed into a forty-year long relationship with the RHA. Later, in 1943, she exhibited with the Watercolour Society of Ireland and this association, resulted in a submission of forty-one pieces up until her death in 1981. Ruth Brandt also exhibited with the Watercolour Society from 1984 to 1988. An exhibition of four of her works was exhibited posthumously by the Society in 1990.