A noted Irish painter and stained glass artist.


Daughter of Joseph Hone [1851-1908] and Eva Eleanor Robinson Hone [1860-1894].
Her father was a successful businessman, a director of the malting firm Minch & Co. and a director of the Bank of Ireland.
Her mother died two days after her birth. It would appear that she died from complications giving birth to Evie.
The family lived at Roebuck Grove, Dundrum, Co. Dublin.


Detailed bio later.


Evie Hone collapsed and died on her way to 10 o'clock Mass at the Church of the Annunciation, Rathfarnham.


Death Notice.
HONE - March 13, 1955 (suddenly), at Rathfarnham, Evie Sidney Hone. Funeral after 10 o'c. Mass to-morrow (Tuesday) from the Church of the Annunciation, Rathfarnham, to Tallaght. Rest in Peace.


EVIE HONE
An Appreciation.

I have known Evie Hone intimately for fifteen years during which time we have travelled, laughed and painted together. Two days before she died I took her for a favourite drive of ours to Glencullen and the Pine Forest. The country was bathed in sunshine.

As always after being in Evie's company, I came away stimulated by her courage, her fortitude and her wisdom. That same evening I read by chance, the following tribute to one Edward Sheldon by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and immediately realised how much it applied to Evie Hone,
"A saint - many of us shrink from from a word so dazzingly bright in its connotation of perfection; an image so lacking in shadow that it is almost invisible to the human eye. But if the word "saint" be taken as a symbol for an ordinary person who has overcome superhuman difficulties in his own life; who, after overcoming them, still has ardour enough left to give to those with whom he came in contact; whose wisdom was so sharpened by suffering and illuminated by love that he saw everyone as he was meant to be - then it might be said that such a person is a symbol of sainthood".

This expresses just what I have often felt about Evie. It was a privilege to have been her friend. Not only was she a great artist, but she was a human being in whom "the outward and the inward man were one".

Norah McGuinness


An Irishman's Diary.
The Irish Times, Thursday 17 March 1955.

EVIE HONE

Anyone who has seen Evie Hone's great 1,000 foot square window in the Anglican Chapel, Eton College, will appreciate why her death has left the college authorities an extremely difficult problem in finding suitable windows to flank it at either side. Miss Hone was commissioned to do these as well, and brought sketches for them when she last came to London, but these have been described as far removed from a basis for working drawings. Any other artist who may be commissioned will have a hard task in complementing the distinctive style and deep, rich colours of Miss Hones's Crucifixion and Last Supper.
Evie Hone lived to see her reputation as one of the outstanding artists in stained glass fully established in Britain. This really happened within the last few years, when she had one great success after another: the east window at Eton, and her two London windows at Farm street Jesuit church, and in St. Michael's Church, Highgate - another large Last Supper which was unveiled only a few months ago. But Miss Hone had done a number of windows outside London and, indeed, all over the country. Examples of her work may be seen - and there is no doubt that people will travel to see them - at Lanercost Abbey, in Cumberland; at Ettington Park, in Warwickshire, and at Downe, in Kent.