Pauline Prochazka

Pauline Prochazka (1842–1930) was the founder of the Water Colour Society of Ireland.

Pauline Harriet Prochazka[1]

Baroness
Born1842
Prague
Died1930
Kilkenny

Life

Baroness Pauline Prochazka was the daughter of Ottokar, Baron Prochazka, Field Marshal Lieutenant in the Austrian Army,[2] and Leopoldine Henrika Gersch, step-daughter of the late Baron Stuart de Decies, of Dromana, County Waterford.[3][4] Although born in Prague, she left Bohemia very young and was brought up in Ireland.[5]

She founded the Water Colour Society of Ireland in 1870 with a group of six women in Waterford. It was founded initially as the Amateur Drawing Society. Eight years later it was renamed to the "Irish Fine Art Society".[6][7][8]

Prochazka was an accomplished and award-winning water-colourist and became manager of the Royal Irish School of Art Needlework in 1886.[9] She ran the school for twelve years.[10]

She was a niece to Sir Charles Wheeler Cuffe[1] and thus related to the illustrator Charlotte, Lady Wheeler-Cuffe.[11] She lived in Lyrath house in County Kilkenny.[1][12] Her death was announced in the Irish Times of April 24, 1930.[5]

References
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  2. "Revelations of Hungary, or, Leaves from the diary of an Austrian officer".
  3. "Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, MP for co. Waterford 1873-1874 and 1880-1885".
  4. Marianne Baumgartner (24 July 2015). Der Verein der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen in Wien: (1885-1938). Böhlau Verlag Wien. pp. 374–. ISBN 978-3-205-79702-9.
  5. "Obituary". Kilkenny People. 17 May 1930. p. 7.
  6. "Water colour society". Library Ireland.
  7. "A Galaxy of Geniuses". Water Colour Society.
  8. W. E. Vaughan (1 April 2010). A New History of Ireland: Ireland Under the Union, 1870-1921. Oxford University Press. pp. 449–. ISBN 978-0-19-958374-4.
  9. Penny Sparke; Fiona Fisher (17 June 2016). The Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Routledge. pp. 95–. ISBN 978-1-317-20329-2.
  10. Ellen Easton McLeod (20 December 1999). In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-0-88629-356-7.
  11. "Biographies". Visual Arts Cork.
  12. "Lyrath house history". Savour Kilkenny.
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