Frances J. Kelly (variant name Judy Boland) was an Irish

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 painter. She was married to Irish diplomat Frederick Boland

Frederick Boland

Frederick Henry Boland was an Irish diplomat, who served as ambassador to Britain and the first Irish Ambassador to the United Nations....

. They had five children, one of whom is the poet Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland

-Biography:Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted post-expressionist painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. At the age of six, Boland's father was appointed Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him to London,...

. Kelly studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, Ireland. From 1932-1935, she studied in Paris, France with the cubist painter Léopold Survage

Léopold Survage

Léopold Survage was an important French painter of Russian-Danish-Finnish descent born in Vilmanstrand, Finland .-Biography:At a young age, Survage was...

. In Ireland, she painted the murals in Tullamore Hospital, Dublin, and those at the old Russell Hotel. Kelly specialized in still lifes.

Paintings

• Still Life with Lillies and Staffordshire Figurine
• As She Moved Through the Fair
• Still Life With Flowers Before a Window
• Reclining Nude

(Frances Kelly and Frederick H Boland)

Children:-

Jane,

Mella,-Who was married to Laurence Crowleyhttp://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=%22Laurence+Crowley%22&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryIE,

Fergalhttp://www.pressreleaseireland.com/2005/11/02/stamps-mark-50-years-of-ireland%E2%80%99s-un-membership/(Not the GAA player!),

Nessa

and Eavan.

External links

• Whytes Biographies of Irish Artists