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Artist: Evie Hone HRHA (1894-1955) Title: St. Martin of Tours - Design for a Stained Glass Panel (c.1952) Signature: signed lower right Medium: oil monotype on card Size: 32 x 23cm (12.6 x 9.1in) Framed Size: 58.7 x 43.6cm (23.1 x 17.2in) Provenance: By descent in the family of the late Hertha Phyllis Eason; Abbott and Holder Limited, London (label verso); Private Collection Exhibited: Dublin, Evie Hone Exhibition: 1958 No. 13; Abbot and Holder Twentieth Century Watercolours and Drawings, 2018 a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} The third bishop of Tours in France, St. Martin was noted for his military background-he was once a Roman soldier stationed in Gaul-and for wielding a sword, notably when he cut his cloak in two, giving one half to a beggar. His shrine at Tours became a halting point for pilgrims on the road to Sant... Read more Evie Hone Lot 2 - 'St. Martin of Tours - Design for a Stained Glass Panel (c.1952)' Estimate: €1,200 - €1,800 The third bishop of Tours in France, St. Martin was noted for his military background-he was once a Roman soldier stationed in Gaul-and for wielding a sword, notably when he cut his cloak in two, giving one half to a beggar. His shrine at Tours became a halting point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The term 'chaplain' used to describe a priest serving in the military, derives from St. Martin's shrine, which housed his cloak, or 'cappa'. In Hone's design for a stained glass window, St. Martin is depicted cutting his cloak in half, with the beggar lying on the road underneath the saint's horse. The design shows the influence of Georges Rouault the French artist who became famous in Ireland in 1942 when the Hugh Lane Gallery controversially refused to show his gouache painting Christ and the Soldier (the work is now in the permanent collection of the Hugh Lane). Born at Roebuck Grove, Co. Dublin, Evie Hone's father Joseph Hone, a descendant of the 18th century Irish artist Nathaniel Hone was in the malt business. Illness resulted in Hone spending much of her childhood as a convalescent on the Continent, and seeing Giotto's frescoes in Assisi in 1911 inspired her to become an artist, enrolling at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. In 1918 she studied briefly under Walter Sickert, and then Bernard Meninsky who advised her to go to Paris. Along with her friend Mainie Jellett, Hone studied firstly at the studio of Andre Lhote and then Albert Gleizes with whom they worked for a period each year over the next decade. She returned to Ireland and began to specialise in stained glass, receiving in all about 48 commissions, the most famous being the windows at Eton College Chapel (1948-52). She worked in the Dublin stained glass studio An Tur Gloine until 1943, and in that same year was one of the founders of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. Although her early abstract paintings are virtually indistinguishable from those of Mainie Jellett, her later work is more individual and shows the influence of Rouault as well as of Irish medieval carvings. She died at Rathfarnham in 1955. Hertha Phyllis Eason was an amateur artist in Dublin and a member of the White Stag artist's group. She was an acquaintance of Jack B Yeats and Evie Hone