Violet Teague b. 1872 Melbourne, VIC

Also known as Violet Helen Evangeline Teague
  • Artist (Painter) , (Printmaker)
A painter and printmaker, spent many of her informative years in Europe. While receiving numerous accolades and awards for her artistic practice, she was the recipient of a medal for humanitarian efforts in WW1.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1995
Name
Violet Teague
Also known as Violet Helen Evangeline Teague
Birth date
21 February 1872
Birth place
Melbourne, VIC
Death date
30 September 1951
Death place
Mount Eliza, Melbourne, VIC
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Residence
  • 1932 Central Australia
  • 1935 Gothenberg, Sweden
  • 1922- 30 September 1951 Mount Eliza, Melbourne, VIC
  • 1895- 1922 Melbourne, VIC
  • 1894 Bushey, Hertfordshire (Greater London), England, UK
  • 1890- 1893 Brussels, Belgium
  • 21 February 1872- 1890 Melbourne, VIC
Active Period
  • 1934- 1948
  • 1897- 1921
  • 1890- 1895
Cultural Heritage
  • Canadian
  • English
  • Cornish
  • Australian
Languages
  • English
Training
  • 1901- 1902 Charterisville, Eaglemont, Melbourne, VIC
  • 1901- 1902 Melbourne School, VIC
  • 1897- 1900 National Gallery School, VIC
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Heritage with additions

painter and printmaker, was born in Melbourne on 21 February 1872, only daughter of Dr James Pascoe Teague, a homoeopath from Cornwall, and his Canadian wife Eliza Jane, née Miller, who died when Violet was an infant.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1995
Last updated:
1992
associate of
E. Phillips Fox
1865
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Geraldine Rede
1874
Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
relative of
Caroline Le Souëf
1834
Artist, Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Lady Northcote
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Alf Ashley
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Ina Gregory
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Dr James Pascoe Teague
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
née Miller Eliza Jane Teague
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
relative of
Sybella Teague
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Ernest Blanc Garin
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Mrs Otway Falkiner
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Una Le Souëf
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
sibling of
Una Le Souëf
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Bernice E. Edwell
1880
Artist, Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
John Gardner
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter), Designer, Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Georgina Gregory
1874
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Caroline Le Souëf
1834
Artist, Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Sara Levi
1870
Artist, Artist (Painter)
associate of
Bessie Liddle
1927
Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Hugh Ramsay
1877
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Theo Scharf
1899
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Clara Southern
1860
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Lyceum Club, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Victorian Artists' Society, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Epiphany of the Snows
Date
1938
destroyed
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Date
1931
Corporal of Cadets
Date
1924
Cynthia and Count Brussilov
Date
1923
Marguerite
Date
1922
Boy with Palette
Date
1920
Dian Dreams
Date
1914
Jean
Date
1910
Ulysses before the House of Eumaeus
Date
1905
Nightfall in the Ti tree
Date
1905
Birds of the Sunny South with Australian Flowers
Date
1905
Portrait of Colonel Rede
Date
1897
Collections
British Empire Exhibition,
1924- 1925
Exhibition ()
Wembley, London, England, UK
Panama-Pacific International Exhibition
1914- 1915
Exhibition ()
San Francisco, CA, USA
Women's Work Exhibition
1907
Exhibition ()
Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Vic
Bendigo Jubilee Exhibition
1901
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Bendigo, VIC
Gallery School student exhibition
1899
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Melbourne, VIC
Recognitions
silver medal, Old Salon, VIC
Award
Note: Gold Medal
bronze medal, Panama-Pacific Exhibition, San Francisco, USA
Award
gold medal, Bendigo Jubilee Exhibition, VIC
Award
Citations:
  • Reeves, C., (1978), Violet Teague, (Place: Dictionary of Australian Artists)
  • Moore, William, (1934), The Story of Australian Art, (Place: Sydney)
  • Peers, Juliet, (1993), More Than Just Gumtrees, (Place: Melbourne)
  • Lee, M. A., Violet Helen Evangeline Teague, (Place: Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12)
  • Clark, J., Druce, F. (eds), (1999), Violet Teague, (Place: Beagle Press, Sydney)
  • Hammond, Victoria and Peers, Juliet, (1992), Completing the Picture, (Place: East Hawthorn, VIC)
  • Butler, R., (1981), Melbourne Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920's and 1930's, (Place: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery catalogue, Ballarat, VIC)
See also:
  • Heritage, section 1, plate 29