Molly Barton

Molly Barton (3 April 1861 – 8 November 1949) was an Irish artist.

Life Molly Barton was born Mary Georgina Barton in Dundalk, County Louth on 3 April 1861. She was the youngest of the seven children of the civil engineer James Barton and his wife Catherine Frances Barton (née Golding). The family moved to Farndreg House, west of Dundalk in 1863, where Barton spent the rest of her childhood. Barton's mother died on her second birthday. Her father remarried to Mary Hewson in 1870, with whom he had six more children who survived to adulthood. She was educated at Southsea and Boulogne, moving to London in 1895 to attend the Westminster School of Art. She then travelled to Rome in 1898, where she taught and studied art. Upon her return to Ireland she began to give art lessons to groups of women in country houses, teaching in five locations in 1900.