Anne Madden, painter, was born in London, in 1932 to an Irish father and an Anglo-Chilean mother. She represented Ireland at the 1965 Paris Biennale. In 1999 she painted Empyrius on the vaulted ceiling of the International Contemporary Art Centre in the village of Carros, France, where she had lived for many years with her husband, Louis le Brocquy. She is a member of Aosdána.