2000.219-226 and NMIEG 2003.566, the Gray family, Pre 1900.
9NMIEG 2000.201-204, the Gray family, James Gray, Henry Tufnell Campbell, Rick Campbell and Eileen Gray, at Brownswood, circa 1890s. NMIEG 2000.217, Lonsdale Gray, Ireland, NMIEG 2000.218, Thora and Eileen, Ireland. NMIEG 2003.558, Eileen Gray on horseback, circa 1917.
10NMIEG 2000.242, a Fiat car.
11Ibid, Adam, p.12.
12Ibid, Adam.
13Binchy, Maeve, ‘A Far from Demure Life’, The Irish Times, 16 February 1976.
14Spalding, Francis, Prunella Clough Regions Unmapped, London, Lund Humphries, 2012, p.12.
15NMIEG 2000.209 and NMIEG 2000.210, James MacLaren Smith at his easel.
16Ibid, Adam, p.17.
17NMIEG 2000.202, Brownswood house, circa 1896.
18Ibid, Adam.
19Ibid, Binchy.
20Aquarius Interview, Thames Television Production, 11 November 1975. Gray illustrates photographs of the original Georgian house and the Mock Tudor house of 1896.
21Ibid, Binchy.
22Binchy, Maeve, The Irish Times, 4 November 1976.
23In the Enniscorthy News and County of Wexford Advertiser, the Enniscorthy Correspondent and the Enniscorthy Recorder, from 1890 to 1900 there are regular articles concerning art and architecture, leading artists of the day, contemporary exhibitions, theoretical proposals and a new approach to teaching art being put into practice at London Art Schools.
24NMIEG 2000.227, Eileen Gray, 1883. NMIEG 2000.231, Eileen Gray, 1897. NMIEG 2000.237, Eileen Gray 1898-1900. NMIEG 2000.228, NMIEG 2003.539, and NMIEG 2003.564, Eileen Gray 1888-1890. NMIEG 2003.545, Eileen Gray, 1894. NMIEG 2003.548, Eileen Gray, 1896. NMIEG 2003.559, Eileen Gray, 1896-1897. NMIEG 2003.553, NMIEG 2003.557, Eileen Gray, 1897-1898. NMIEG 2003.560, Eileen Gray, 1900.NMIEG 2003.550, Eileen Gray 1900-1902.NMIEG 2003.560, Eileen Gray, 1900.
25NMIEG 2000.238, Eileen Gray with Henry Savage Landor, possibly at the Villa Gherdisca near Florence. Savage Landor was a serious suitor, one that the family approved of, and had studied at the Académie Julian. He was an explorer and when they were introduced he had already travelled quite extensively. The Landors lived in Italy and owned a large villa, the Villa Gherdisca, near Florence. NMIEG 2000.236, Eileen Gray with an unknown gentleman. NMIEG 2000.245 and NMIEG 2003.565, Eileen Gray with three gentlemen.
26NMIEG 2000.216, James MacLaren Smith taken towards the end of his life. Gray has written lovingly ‘papa’ on the back. NMIEG 2000.217, Lonsdale Gray. Lonsdale Richard Douglas Gray was born 3 March 1870. He died while on active service, unmarried, on 10 June 1900 at aged 30 whilst in South Africa. He fought in the Boer War and gained the rank of Captain in the Sixth Dragoon Guards. Gray was heartbroken at his death.
27Burke, Carolyn, Becoming Modern: the Life of Mina Loy, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996, p.37.
28Schwabe, Randolph, ‘Three Teachers: Brown, Tonks and Steer’, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 82, No.483, June 1943, p.141.
29Adam, Peter, Eileen Gray: Architect/Designer: A Biography, London, Thames & Hudson, 1987, pp. 21-2.
30Postle, Martin, ‘The Foundation of the Slade School of Fine Art: Fifty-Nine Letters in the Record Office of University College London’, The Volume of the Walpole Society, Vol.58, 1995/1996, p.147.
31Ibid, Schwabe, p.145.
32Ibid, Schwabe, p.146
33Ibid, Schwabe, p.141.
34Ibid, Schwabe, p.142.
35Aquarius Interview, London Thames Television Production, November 1975. Eileen Gray states that she studied initially with D. Charles on Dean Street in Soho.
36V&A Archives, AAD9/11-1980, business correspondence, AAD/9/3-1980, notebook.
37Ibid, Adam. pp.23, 34. Adam states that Kelly was at the Slade and this is where Gray befriended him. However, there is no mention of Kelly attending the Slade in Derek Hudson’s biography on Gerald Kelly. In the Slade School records there is an F.M. Kelly registered to study fine art in 1900-1901.
38Ibid, Binchy, The Irish Times, 16 February 1976.
39Holland, Clive, ‘Student Life in Paris’, The Studio and Illuminated Magazine of Fine and Applied Arts, Vol.27, 1903, p.38.
40Ibid, Adam, p.35.
41Hudson, Derek, For the Love of Painting, The Life of Sir Gerald Kelly, London, Chaucer Press, 1975, p.1.
42The Times, 18 March 1969. As quoted in Hudson, Derek, For the Love of Painting, The Life of Sir Gerald Kelly, London, Chaucer Press, 1975, p.18.
43O’Connor, Ulick, ‘The Abbey Portraits’, Irish Arts Review, Dublin, Vol.21, No.3, Autumn 2004, pp.104-107.
44Ibid,
