Agnes Goodsir b. 18 June 1864

Also known as Agnes Goodsir, Agnes Noyes Goodsir
  • Artist (Painter)
Alternating her residency between Paris, London and Melbourne, Agnes painted portraits of some very famous sitters including Bertrand Russell, Leo Tolstoy and Mussolini.

Citations

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney.

  • Badham, Harold (1949), 'A Study of Australian Art’, Sydney.

  • Bénézit, E. (1948), 'Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs’, 8 vols, Paris.

  • Burke, Janine (1980), 'Australian Women Artists 1840-1940’, Collingwood, Vic.

  • Quinlan, Karen (1998), 'In a picture land over the sea: Agnes Goodsir 1864-1939’, Bendigo Art Gallery catalogue.

  • Thieme, U. & Becker, F. (1907), 'Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler’, 37 vols, Leipzig.

  • Waters, G. (1975), 'Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950’, London.

  • (1926), Adam & Eve, August, 1.

  • (1926), Annals of Bendigo, vol.4.

  • (1939), 'Obituary’, Argus, August, 17.

  • (1927), Australian Woman’s Mirror, February, 22.

  • (1927), Bendigo Advertiser, November, 26.

  • (1906), British Australasian, December, 6, p.11.

  • (1927), Bulletin, July-August.

  • (1924), Colour, June-July.

  • (1924), Daily Telegraph (Sydney), July, 26.

  • Dolman, Bernard (ed) (1981), 'A Dictionary of Contemporary British Artists, 1929’, reprint Woodbridge, UK.

  • (1927), Sydney Morning Herald, June, 28.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book