First portrait of Katie Taylor to be auctioned off in Wicklow before final fight

First portrait of Katie Taylor to be auctioned off in Wicklow before final fight

Titled ‘The Ambassadors’, the artwork captures the very dawn of a sporting revolution

Katie Taylor ‘The Ambassadors’ Goes Under the Hammer

PRESS RELEASE The first ever portrait of Katie Taylor (then aged 15) painted after her historic fight in 2001 when Taylor and her opponent Alanna Audley were the first female boxers to fight under the auspices of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, of which Taylor was the victor, is up for auction on the 16th August at Mullens Auction House, Bray. Painted by Irish artist Paul MacCormaic whose portrait of Catherine Corless is in the permanent c…