About Mary Rankin Swan
Lived 1865 – 1944 (aged 78–79). Mary Rankin Swan was an Irish painter.
Mary Rankin Swan (1865–1944), also Mrs John Macallan Swan, was an Irish portrait artist.
Life Born Mary Anne Rankin in Coleraine, Ireland, in 1865. Her father was Hamilton Rankin of Camdonagh, County Donegal, he was an inspector of waterworks. She was an artist who specialised in depictions of children and occasionally sculptures.
Together, they had two children, John Barye Rankin, an engineer who served as a Naval Volunteer Reserve in the First World War, and Mary Alice, who went on to become a sculptor and medalist.
The family lived in London. She died in 1944.
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Irish painter
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Mary Rankin Swan was born in 1865 in Cork.
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Mary Rankin Swan died in 1944.
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Mary Rankin Swan was a painter.
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