Flora Mitchell

Flora Mitchell (1890 - 1973) was an American-born Irish artist, remembered in particular for her mid-20th-century paintings of old Dublin architecture that has since disappeared.

Life

She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After a Sioux Indian uprising around the turn of the century, her father moved the family to Ireland, where he went to work for the Jameson whiskey distillery. Flora studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art.^[1]

She married William Jameson, a great-grandson of John Jameson, the founder of the distillery, in 1930. A sailor and yachtsman, he died in 1939. A few years later she moved to Killiney, where she lived and worked for the remainder of her life.

Several hundred of her works, mainly Dublin scenes, are in the possession of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Publications

• Vanishing Dublin, 1966

See also

• List of Irish artists

References