Mabel Young (18 August 1889 – 8 February 1974) was a British artist, who spent her career painting in Ireland.Mabel Florence Young was born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, on 18 August 1889. She was the youngest of seven children of Emma and William Henry Young, owner of a coaching business. Young was educated in Ryde, but due a decline in her father's coach business after the advent of the motor car, she became a seamstress. She moved to Dublin 1914 to work as an assistant to her sister, the housekeeping manager of the Shelbourne Hotel. She evaded gunfire on Easter Monday 1916 as she walked home from a day the Phoenix Park via O'Connell Bridge. During the civil war, on 1 July 1922 Young barely escaped a stray bullet that was shot through her living-room window and lodged in the wall. In 1924, Young met Paul Henry whilst holidaying in Kilmacanogue, County Wicklow, becoming his student and lover, until she discovered her was married to Grace Henry. She then went to run a guesthouse at Carrigoona Cottage, Kilmacanogue. A frequent visitor was the writer Mary Manning, who later used her time in the cottage as inspiration for the play Storm over Wicklow (1933). Wikipedia
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