Muriel Brandt was an Irish artist. She studied at the Belfast College of Art

University of Ulster

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 and at the Royal College of Art

Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

 in London

London

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, where she was elected Associate Royal College of Art (ARCA) in 1937. She married and settled in Dublin, living mainly in Sutton, Dublin

Sutton, Dublin

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 and painted mural decorations, portraits and landscapes, as well as working in oil and watercolours. She was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy

Royal Hibernian Academy

The Royal Hibernian Academy is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823.-History:The RHA was founded as the result of 30 Irish artists petitioning the government for a charter of incorporation...

 (RHA) in 1962. She was commissioned to paint the portraits of many Dublin notables, among them Sir Alfred Chester Beatty

Alfred Chester Beatty

Sir Alfred Chester Beatty Seanad 1985: "Chester Beatty died at the Princess Grace Clinic, Monte Carlo, on 19 January 1968, [...]" . was a mining magnate and millionaire, often called the "King of Copper". U.S.-born, he was naturalised British in 1933, and made an honorary citizen of Ireland in 1957...

. She also painted the panels in the Franciscan

Franciscan

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church of Adam and Eve, on Merchant's Quay, Dublin.