painter, exhibited with the Australian Artists Association at Melbourne in 1887. She exhibited paintings at the 1888-89 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition and won a Jury award, 3rd order of merit (Oil and Watercolour Paintings) for a work titled Autumn (see Official Record p.683), when she was noted as living in Toorak. Other works exhibited in the Victorian Artists’ Gallery (Oil Paintings) included no.97 Poppies and Basket of Roses . Exhibited Victorian Artists’ Society, 1900. Eveline Syme notes that Mrs Theo Anderson was 'for many years a prominent figure in the steadily growing Art world of Victoria’, as well as the sole woman in the group of professionals who seceded from the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1886 in protest against the invasion of amateurism in the Academy. In 1908 Iso Rae showed a painting at an exhibition in Mrs Theo Anderson’s Studio in Collins Street, Melbourne.

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