Caroline Scally


Caroline Scally, was an Irish landscape artist.

Early life and education

She was born Caroline Stein in Dún Laoghaire in 1886 to Robert Francis and Mary Josephine Stein. She studied art under William Orpen at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin with Sean Keating and James Sinton Sleator. In 1911 Scally won the Taylor Art award and went to Paris and then Rome. She married Gerald Scally in 1914. She held her first solo show in 1930 in the Dublin Painters' Gallery. She was among the first exhibitors at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art exhibition in 1943 and showed with the Royal Hibernian Academy and Watercolour Society of Ireland. She became a committee member of the WSI in 1958 and went on to be President of the Society of Dublin Painters in 1962.

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