the original Georgian house and the Mock Tudor house of 1896.
21Ibid, Binchy.
22Binchy, Maeve, The Irish Times, 4 November 1976.
23In the Enniscorthy News and County of Wexford Advertiser, the Enniscorthy Correspondent and the Enniscorthy Recorder, from 1890 to 1900 there are regular articles concerning art and architecture, leading artists of the day, contemporary exhibitions, theoretical proposals and a new approach to teaching art being put into practice at London Art Schools.
24NMIEG 2000.227, Eileen Gray, 1883. NMIEG 2000.231, Eileen Gray, 1897. NMIEG 2000.237, Eileen Gray 1898-1900. NMIEG 2000.228, NMIEG 2003.539, and NMIEG 2003.564, Eileen Gray 1888-1890. NMIEG 2003.545, Eileen Gray, 1894. NMIEG 2003.548, Eileen Gray, 1896. NMIEG 2003.559, Eileen Gray, 1896-1897. NMIEG 2003.553, NMIEG 2003.557, Eileen Gray, 1897-1898. NMIEG 2003.560, Eileen Gray, 1900.NMIEG 2003.550, Eileen Gray 1900-1902.NMIEG 2003.560, Eileen Gray, 1900.
25NMIEG 2000.238, Eileen Gray with Henry Savage Landor, possibly at the Villa Gherdisca near Florence. Savage Landor was a serious suitor, one that the family approved of, and had studied at the Académie Julian. He was an explorer and when they were introduced he had already travelled quite extensively. The Landors lived in Italy and owned a large villa, the Villa Gherdisca, near Florence. NMIEG 2000.236, Eileen Gray with an unknown gentleman. NMIEG 2000.245 and NMIEG 2003.565, Eileen Gray with three gentlemen.
26NMIEG 2000.216, James MacLaren Smith taken towards the end of his life. Gray has written lovingly ‘papa’ on the back. NMIEG 2000.217, Lonsdale Gray. Lonsdale Richard Douglas Gray was born 3 March 1870. He died while on active service, unmarried, on 10 June 1900 at aged 30 whilst in South Africa. He fought in the Boer War and gained the rank of Captain in the Sixth Dragoon Guards. Gray was heartbroken at his death.
27Burke, Carolyn, Becoming Modern: the Life of Mina Loy, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996, p.37.
28Schwabe, Randolph, ‘Three Teachers: Brown, Tonks and Steer’, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 82, No.483, June 1943, p.141.
29Adam, Peter, Eileen Gray: Architect/Designer: A Biography, London, Thames & Hudson, 1987, pp. 21-2.
30Postle, Martin, ‘The Foundation of the Slade School of Fine Art: Fifty-Nine Letters in the Record Office of University College London’, The Volume of the Walpole Society, Vol.58, 1995/1996, p.147.
31Ibid, Schwabe, p.145.
32Ibid, Schwabe, p.146
33Ibid, Schwabe, p.141.
34Ibid, Schwabe, p.142.
35Aquarius Interview, London Thames Television Production, November 1975. Eileen Gray states that she studied initially with D. Charles on Dean Street in Soho.
36V&A Archives, AAD9/11-1980, business correspondence, AAD/9/3-1980, notebook.
37Ibid, Adam. pp.23, 34. Adam states that Kelly was at the Slade and this is where Gray befriended him. However, there is no mention of Kelly attending the Slade in Derek Hudson’s biography on Gerald Kelly. In the Slade School records there is an F.M. Kelly registered to study fine art in 1900-1901.
38Ibid, Binchy, The Irish Times, 16 February 1976.
39Holland, Clive, ‘Student Life in Paris’, The Studio and Illuminated Magazine of Fine and Applied Arts, Vol.27, 1903, p.38.
40Ibid, Adam, p.35.
41Hudson, Derek, For the Love of Painting, The Life of Sir Gerald Kelly, London, Chaucer Press, 1975, p.1.
42The Times, 18 March 1969. As quoted in Hudson, Derek, For the Love of Painting, The Life of Sir Gerald Kelly, London, Chaucer Press, 1975, p.18.
43O’Connor, Ulick, ‘The Abbey Portraits’, Irish Arts Review, Dublin, Vol.21, No.3, Autumn 2004, pp.104-107.
44Ibid, Hudson, p.24.
45Musée Rodin Archives, three letters from Eileen Gray to Auguste Rodin, December 1902, January 1902 and 20 January 1902.
46Ibid, Adam, p.38.
47Bilbiothèque Jacques Doucet, fonds Paul Léautaud, MS 24133, deux lettres de Paul Léautaud à Eileen Gray. Paris, 24 February and 30 April 1904.
48Ibid, Adam, p.37.
49Sutin, Lawrence, Do What Thou Wilt, A Life of Aleister Crowley, New York, St Martin’s Press, 2000, pp.49-50.
50Crowley, Aleister, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, London, Bantam Press, 1971; originally published by Mandrake, 1929, edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, pp.166, 347-350.
51Bruce, Kathleen, Self Portrait of an Artist, London, John Murray, 1949, p.71.
52Hamnett, Nina, Laughing Torso, Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett, New York, Roy Long and Richard Smith, 1932, p.31.
53Crowley, Aleister, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, London, Bantam Press, 1971. Originally published by Mandrake, 1929, edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, pp.166, 139-140, 347-350.
54Ibid, Crowley, Aleister, p.370.