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(1) Margaret Clarke [née Crilley]
(b Newry, 1888; d Dublin, 1961). Painter. She attended Newry Technical School and went to Dublin in 1905 to study at the Metropolitan School of Art under William Orpen, whose assistant she became. In October 1914 she married Harry Clarke. Her many commissioned paintings include portraits of Dermod O’Brien, President of the Royal Hibernian Academy (1935), Dr Edward Sheridan, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin (1946), and the painting St Patrick Climbs Croagh Patrick (Dublin, Mansion House), commissioned by the Haverty Bequest in 1932, in which the academic influence of Orpen is clear. However, she made her reputation with landscapes and small format subject paintings such as the portrait of Lennox Robinson (1926; Cork, Crawford Mun. A.G.) and the posthumous portrait of Harry Clarke (c. 1932; Dublin, N.G.), characterized by a decorative, strongly coloured realism influenced to some extent by Post-Impressionism. She painted a number of subject paintings that were influenced stylistically by Orpen, using her children, her maid and writers and artists as models; the most important of these was Strindbergian (1927; Dublin, David Clarke priv. col.), based on August Strindberg’s Spöksonaten. In 1930 she was commissioned to design a series of posters for the Empire Marketing Board. After her husband’s death in 1931 she directed his stained-glass studios.
Part of the Clarke family
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