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