| Pauline Harriet Prochazka[1] | |
| Honorific Suffix: | Baroness |
| Birth Date: | 1842 |
| Birth Place: | Prague |
| Death Date: | 1930 |
| Death Place: | Kilkenny |
Pauline Prochazka (1842–1930) was a water-colourist and one of the founders of the Water Colour Society of Ireland.
Baroness Pauline Prochazka was the daughter of Ottokar, Baron Prochazka, Field Marshal Lieutenant in the Austrian Army,[2] and Leopoldine Henrika Gersch, step-daughter of the late Baron Stuart de Decies, of Dromana, County Waterford.[3] [4] Although born in Prague, she left Bohemia very young and was brought up in Ireland.[5]
She founded the Water Colour Society of Ireland in 1870 with a group of six women in Waterford. It was founded initially as the Amateur Drawing Society. Eight years later it was renamed to the "Irish Fine Art Society".[6] [7] [8]
Prochazka was an accomplished and award-winning water-colourist and became manager of the Royal Irish School of Art Needlework in 1886.[9] She ran the school for twelve years.[10]
She was a niece to Sir Charles Wheeler Cuffe[1] and thus related to the illustrator Charlotte, Lady Wheeler-Cuffe.[11] She lived in Lyrath house in County Kilkenny.[1] [12] Her death was announced in the Irish Times of April 24, 1930.[5]