Lilian Davidson

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexFemale
Full nameLilian Lucy•Davidson
Used nameLilian•Davidson
Born26 January 1879 in Bray, Wicklow (IRL)
Died29 March 1954 in Dublin, Dublin (IRL)
NOC Ireland

Biography

Lilian Lucy Davidson was a famous landscape, portrait and genre painter. She studied in Dublin and later taught in various art schools in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Davidson was best known for her portrait, genre and landscape paintings. Although she was not well off, she traveled extensively. She was close to many of her contemporary, fellow Irish painters and held a joint exhibition with Mainie Jellett in 1920 and also taught artists Bea Orpen and Kitty Wilmer at her studio in Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin. Among her portrait subjects were Jack B.Yeats, Sarah Purser, A.E. George Russell, Austin Clarke and Joseph Holloway. Lilian Davidson also excelled as a playwright. Around the time of the 1928 Olympics, she painted Country Races, depicting a gathering of farmers on the sidelines of a race.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1928 Summer Olympics Art Competitions IRL Lilian Davidson
Painting, Drawings And Water Colors, Open (Olympic) AC
Painting, Paintings, Open (Olympic) AC