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Caroline Scally
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Caroline Scally (29 October 1886 – 26 September 1973), was a landscape painter from Ireland.

Later life and Death
The last years of Caroline Scally's life were spent in Weirview, Islandbridge. In 1930, she presented her first solo exhibition at The Dublin Painters Gallery. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Caroline was a highly busy exhibitor. She was a pioneering exhibitor at the 1943 Irish Exhibition of Living Art. It had been 50 years since her first RHA presentation when she took part in an exhibition with the Dublin Painters. It is noted that Caroline Scallys' paintings, which were on display at the Dublin Painters Exhibition, bring a new and uninhibited perspective to light on every subject she paints. The Evening Herald said that Swan's reputation was reinforced by the exhibition's artwork. She joined the WCSI, an Irish watercolor association, as a committee member in 1958, and in 1962 she was elected president of the Society of Dublin Painters. The Three Swans, one of Caroline's most well-known works, was also on display at the 1964 WCSI, the Irish watercolor organization. When assessing her work for the Independent Artists exhibition in 1968, The Irish Times described her as "an elder figure, keeps up a quiet and constant quality livened with a whimsical humour." Over the years, as one of Sir William Orpens' students, she has created a totally unique style that is possibly best displayed in "day break on the Liffey," which was displayed at the Living Arts Exhibition. In a review of the WCSI show published in 1970, the year before her death, she and Sean Keating (q.v.) were mentioned as Sir William Orpen's (q.v.) final two still-active students. She died at Islandbridge on September 26, 1973, at the age of 87. The exhibition "Irish Women Artists: 1870-1970" featured Caroline Scally's work (2014). Her art was also included in the 2011 anthologies "A Celebration of Irish Art and Modernism" and "Ireland: Her People and Landscape" (2012).