Eileen CHESTER

Miss Eileen CHESTER
later Mrs Stewart MURRAY
1885

Born at Templemere, Cork in Ireland. According to the Cornishman (1908), the artist was in attendance at the FORBES SCHOOL, after departing four years previously (1904) to go to India, then as Miss Chester of Pembroke Lodge, Newlyn.  

Later, she exhibited from 1923-29 from her home address in Co Longford, Ireland, primarily at the RHA.

media

Painter of portraits, figures and genre

exhibitions

RHA

references

The Cornishman 1908

Green (2002) Posing the Model

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall

Johnson & Greutzner (under MURRAY) (1975) Dictionary of British Artists