Grania Langrishe
{{short description|Irish botanical illustrator and artist}}
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| birth_name = Grania Sybil Enid Wingfield
| birth_date = 25 April 1934
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Grania Sybil Enid, Lady Langrishe (née Wingfield; born 25 April 1934), is an Irish botanical illustrator and artist.{{cite web |url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/powerful-portrait-of-the-big-house-and-the-lords-and-ladies-who-loved-it-so-26410296.html |title=Powerful portrait of the 'Big House' and the lords and ladies who loved it so - Independent.ie |newspaper=Independent |date= April 2006|author= |accessdate= October 7, 2016}}
Life
Born Grania Sybil Enid Wingfield on 25 April 1934 to The Right Honourable The 9th Viscount Powerscourt (he succeeded to the peerage in March 1947) and Sheila Claude Beddington.{{cite web |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp86242/grania-sybil-enid-nee-wingfield-lady-langrishe |title=Grania Sybil Enid (née Wingfield), Lady Langrishe - Person - National Portrait Gallery |newspaper=Npg |date= |author= |accessdate= October 7, 2016}} She married Sir Hercules Ralph Hume Langrishe, 7th Baronet, on 21 April 1955. The couple had four children: Sir James Hercules Langrishe 8th Bt. (born 1957), Miranda Grania Langrishe (born 1959), Georgina Emma Langrishe (born 1961) and Atalanta Sue Pollock (née Langrishe) (born 1963), an artist.{{cite web |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p3379.htm |title=Person Page |newspaper=Thepeerage.com |date= |author= |accessdate= October 7, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://www.headfort.com/atalanta-pollock-art-exhibition-headfort-views/ |title=Atalanta Pollock Art Exhibition 'Headfort Views' - Headfort School |newspaper=Headfort |date= |author= |accessdate= October 7, 2016}}
Though she grew up at the Powerscourt Estate, her mother, Lady Powerscourt, moved the family to Bermuda for a while during her childhood. This inspired her lifelong fascination with plants. Although Langrishe had no formal training, she began painting botanical illustrations in watercolour. Langrishe was elected to the Watercolour Society of Ireland in 1984.{{cite web |url=http://www.collinspress.ie/niall-maccoitir.html |title=Niall Mac Coitir, author of Irish Trees, Irish Wild Plants, Ireland's Animals, Ireland's Birds |newspaper=Collinspress.ie |accessdate=October 7, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009221707/http://www.collinspress.ie/niall-maccoitir.html |archivedate=October 9, 2016 }} Langrishe regularly exhibits with the Watercolour Society.{{cite web |url=http://www.irishwatercolours.com/ |title=Irish Watercolours .com |newspaper=Irishwatercolours.com |date= |author= |accessdate= October 7, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://antiquesandartireland.com/2016/09/iris-watercolour-society/ |title=Water Colour Society Of Ireland At Dun Laoghaire « antiquesandartireland.com |newspaper=Antiques and art Ireland|date= |author= |accessdate= October 7, 2016}} Her work was commissioned for two books on trees and plants in Ireland.
Langrishe lives at Arlonstown, Dunsany, County Meath.{{cite web |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/dumping-a-tv-1.284855 |title=Dumping a TV |newspaper=Irish Times |date= |author= |accessdate= October 7, 2016}}
Illustrations
- Irish Trees: Myth, Legend and Folklore by Niall Mac Coitir
- Irish Wild Plants: Myths Legends and Folklore by Niall Mac Coitir
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Category:20th-century Irish painters
Category:21st-century Irish painters
Category:Irish women illustrators
Category:Irish botanical illustrators