Marion Ferdinando

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
An illustrator and Melbourne Theosophist, she designed covers for the Victorian Artists' Society in the 1890s and was a friend of Max Meldrum and sister-in-law of Frederick McCubbin.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Marion Ferdinando
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Residence
  • Melbourne, Vic.
Active Period
  • c.1890- c.1899
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

illustrator, Melbourne Theosophist, did cover designs for the Victorian Artists’ Society in the 1890s with nymphs, etc. A sister of Beatrix Hoile Colquhoun and Millicent Hoile, Frederick McCubbin’s sister-in-law and a friend of Florence Fuller and Max Meldrum.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Florence Fuller
1867
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Max Meldrum
1875
Artist (Painter)
relative of
Frederick McCubbin
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
sibling of
Beatrix Hoile Colquhoun
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Millicent Hoile
Artist
sibling of
Millicent Hoile
Artist
associate of
Victorian Artists' Society
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Recognitions
Cover designs for the Victorian Artists' Society in the 1890s
1890
Award
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