Lilian Lucy Davidson was a famous landscape, portrait and genre painter. She studied in Dublin and later taught in various art schools in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Davidson was best known for her portrait, genre and landscape paintings. Although she was not well off, she traveled extensively. She was close to many of her contemporary, fellow Irish painters and held a joint exhibition with Mainie Jellett in 1920 and also taught artists Bea Orpen and Kitty Wilmer at her studio in Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin. Among her portrait subjects were Jack B.Yeats, Sarah Purser, A.E. George Russell, Austin Clarke and Joseph Holloway. Lilian Davidson also excelled as a playwright. Around the time of the 1928 Olympics, she painted Country Races, depicting a gathering of farmers on the sidelines of a race.
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