A framed painting by Sarah Purser entitled "The Pearl Pendant".

Sarah Purser (22 March 1848 to 7 August 1943) was an Irish artist. She was born in Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) in County Dublin, and raised in Dungarvan, County Waterford. She was educated in Switzerland and afterwards studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and in Paris at the Academie Julian. She worked mostly as a portraitist. Through her talent and energy, and owing to her friendship with the Gore-Booths, she was very successful in obtaining commissions, famously commenting I went through the British aristocracy like the measles. In 1923 she became the first female member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

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