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HELEN MABEL TREVOR An Irish Artist abroad modern irish literature witty waysBorn in Loughbrickland, Co Down, in 1831, Helen Mabel Trevor was encouraged in her love of drawing and painting from an early age. Self taught for a large part of her life, she attended the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1877 to 1880. Trevor travelled to France in the 1880s, studying at the atelier of Carolus Duran in Paris and visiting Brittany and Normandy, where she painted scenes of the daily life of the local communities. She spent six