Alicia Boyle RBA
Alicia Boyle (1908-1997) was born in Bangkok, Thailand but grew up in Derry, before moving to London to study. She attended the Clapham School of Art and then the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting under F. Ernest Jackson. In 1938 she accepted an offer from the Greek government to be artist in residence on the island of Mykonos, travelling between there and London for a time before returning to Ireland to live and paint.Boyle felt inspired by and dealt primarily with subjects of nature, taking artistic influence from Daumier, Millet, Rouault and the poetry of Frank O’Connor.
She exhibited at the Royal Academy as a student (1932), Leicester and Leger Galleries (1949, 1951 and 1953), CEMA in Belfast and the Waddington Gallery in Dublin. Her work has been part of collections at the Bank of Ireland, Irish Arts Council and in public galleries in Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Derbyshire. She held a number of solo shows at Peter Jones Gallery (from 1945) and Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in Cork (1988).
One Woman Exhibitions
1945 Peter Jones Gallery, London
1949 Leger Galleries, London
1949 Sponsored by the Midland Group of Artists, Nottingham
1950 Sponsored by the Council for Encouragement of Music and the Arts, Northern Ireland, Belfast
1951 Leger Galleries, London
1951 Central Museum and Art Gallery
1952 Sponsored by the Council for Encouragement of Music and the Arts, Northern Ireland, Belfast
1953 Leger Galleries, London
1954 Sponsored by the Midland Group of Artists, Nottingham
1958 Walker's Galleries, London
1959 Sponsored by the Council for Encouragement of Music and the Arts, Northern Ireland, Belfast
1963 Sponsored by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast
1967 Sponsored by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for North West Arts Festival, Derry
1967 Sponsored by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast
1972 Barrenhill Gallery, Baily, Co. Dublin
1973 Cork Arts Society Gallery, Cork
1975 Tom Caldwell Galleries, Dublin
1976 Cork Arts Society Gallery, Cork
1978 Tom Caldwell Galleries, Dublin
1979 United Arts Club, Dublin
1987 Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1983 Retrospective Exhibition (1938-82), hosted by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast
1983 Retrospective (1938-82), Gordon Gallery, Derry
1983 Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford
1984 Cork Arts Society Gallery, Cork
1986 Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1988 Trinity Gallery, London
1988 Retrospective Exhibition, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
1989 IMMA, Kilmainham, Dublin
Group Shows and Major Exhibitions
1932 Royal Academy of Arts, London.
1936 Royal Academy of Arts, London.
1938 The London Group, London.
1942 Artists Aid Russia, London.
1943 United Artists, R.A., London.
1944-71 Artists of Fame and of Promise, and Gallery Group, Leicester Galleries, London.
1944-54 Leger Galleries, London.
1947-50 St. George’s Gallery, London.
1947-63 Artists International Association, London
1951 Contemporary Ulster Paintings, Edinburgh.
1951-61 Women's International Art Club, London, The Provinces, Holland, etc.
1951-63 Senefelder Group of Artist Lithographers, London.
1951-53 Waddington Galleries, Dublin.
1951-53 Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin.
1953 Watercolours by Ulster Artists, Belfast.
1958-71 R.B.A. Exhibitions, London.
1962 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Open Painting prizewinner, Belfast.
1963-70 Ashgate Gallery, Farnham.
1964 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Open Paintings, Belfast.
1964 Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford.
1964 Royal Watercolour Society, London, Farnham Artists.
1966 Four Painters, Aldershot.
1967 Ulster Society of Woman Artists, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
1968 W.I.A.C. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
1972-82 Cork Arts Society, Cork, Group Exhibitions.
1974-77 Tom Caldwell Galleries, Dublin, Group Exhibitions.
1976 An tOireachtas, Dublin.
1979 Contemporary Irish Artists. Insurance Corporation of Ireland, Dublin.
1980-88 Taylor Galleries, Dublin.
1982 James Joyce Centenary Exhibition, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
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'THE BASKET OF FISH'
SIZE: H 14" x W 18.5"
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Date: 28/04/2026
'CONNEMARA QUAY'
SIZE: H 14.5" x W 11"
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€425
Date: 28/04/2026
'WINDOW VIEW'
SIZE: H 15" x W 11"
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€379
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'THE BRACKEN PATH'
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€330
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'PAGE OF CATS'
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€290
Date: 28/04/2026
'GEORGE BUCHANAN'
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€287
Date: 28/04/2026
'SWEENY IN GLENARIFF'
SIZE: H 18" x W 13"
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€264
Date: 28/04/2026
'THE FOURTH GARDEN'
SIZE: H 19.5" x W 15"
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€264
Date: 28/04/2026
'PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'
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€250
Date: 28/04/2026
'NAXOS'
SIZE: H 16" x W 12"
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€207
Date: 28/04/2026
'THE MACHINES OF LEARNING 1938'
SIZE: H 7" x W 9"
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€207
Date: 28/04/2026
'LOW TIDE, BURTONPORT'
SIZE: H 20" x W 15"
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€207
Date: 28/04/2026
'CONNEMARA QUAY'
SIZE: H 13.5" x W 10"
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€195
Date: 28/04/2026
'HENFOLD'
SIZE: H 14" x W 10"
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€184
Date: 28/04/2026
'FOUNTAIN STREET, LONDONDERRY'
SIZE: H 18.5" x W 13.5"
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€184
Date: 28/04/2026