Alice Panton b. 1864 Castlemaine, VIC, Castlemaine?, VIC

  • Artist (Painter)
Alice Panton was a painter best known for her portraiture. In the early 1920s Panton drove from Adelaide to Perth by car, reputedly the first woman to perform this feat.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1995
Name
Alice Panton
Birth date
c.1864
Birth place
Castlemaine, VIC, Castlemaine?, VIC
Birth note
Place uncertain
Death date
September 1960
Death place
None
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1888 New Zealand
  • c.1864- c.1960 VIC
  • c.1925- c.1929 England, UK
Active Period
  • c.1886- c.1920
Languages
  • English
Training
  • 1891- 1895 National Gallery Painting School, Melbourne, VIC
  • c.1890 National Gallery Design School, Melbourne, VIC
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

painter, was born in Victoria, probably at Castlemaine, one of the two daughters of Joseph Anderson Panton (1831-1913), police magistrate and painter, and Eleanor Margaret, née Fulton.

This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.

Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1995
Last updated:
2011
child of
Joseph Anderson Panton
1831
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Arnold Shore
1897
Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Designer (Glass & metal Artist / Designer)
child of
née Fulton Eleanor Margaret Panton
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Elenora McGlinn
Artist (Painter)
child of
Joseph Anderson Panton
1831
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Robert Russell
1808
Artist (Sculptor), Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Girl Guide movement, England
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Victorian Artists' Society, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Sketch at Night
Date
1900
Head, from Nature
Date
1886
Head of an Old Woman, from Nature
Date
1886
Collections
Victorian Artists' Society
1893- 1913
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Melbourne, VIC
Victoria Court of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition
1886
Exhibition (exhibited at)
South Kensington, London, England, UK
Citations:
  • Panton Papers, (Place: La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, ms 10071, Melbourne, VIC)
  • Peers, Juliet, (1993), More Than Just Gumtrees, (Place: Melbourne)
  • McCulloch, Alan/ McCulloch, Susan, (1994), The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (Place: St Leonards, NSW)
  • Kerr, Joan (ed.), (1992), Joseph Anderson Panton, (Place: The Dictionary of Australian Artists, Melbourne)
  • Hammond, Victoria, (1993), A Century of Australian Women Artists 1840s-1940s, (Place: Deutscher Fine Art catalogue, Melbourne)
See also:
  • ADD section 9, plate 367