Alice Jane Muskett b. 28 April 1869

Also known as Alice Muskett, Alice J. Muskett, Jane Laker
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Federation era painter, illustrator and author. Residing for most of her life in Sydney, she was internationally exhibited.

Citations

  • Laker, Jane (Muskett, Alice) (1933), 'Among the Reeds’.

  • (9 February 1895), 'Sydney Morning Herald’, Sydney, New South Wales, (all references on p 7).

  • Muskett, Alice (September 1908), 'The Royal Academy through Australian Spectacles’, Sydney, New South Wales : Art and Architecture, .

  • Kerr, Joan, 'Muskett, Alice Jane’, Sydney, New South Wales : Heritage.

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

  • Ashton, Julian (1941), 'Now Came Still Evening On’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Moore, William (6 December 1907), 'Careers for Australasian Girls IX – what the artist’s life offers’, Melbourne, Victoria : New Idea, p.849 (re FAEWW).

  • (12 September 1896), 'Bulletin’, Sydney, New South Wales, p 12.

  • (2 January 1907), 'Sydney Mail’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • (17 April 1896), 'Table Talk’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Edgar, Suzanne; & Green, Dorothy (1986), 'Alice Muskett’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, [Nairn, B. & Serle, G. (eds.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Information sourced from Anderson, Ingrid.

  • Information sourced from Judd, Craig.

  • 'art correspondents’ (1 April 1910), 'The Art of the Year’, Sydney, New South Wales : Lone Hand, p 665.

  • (25 July 1896), 'Sydney Morning Herald’, Sydney, New South Wales.

See also

  • 'Chapter 11: plate 473'.
  • 'J.R. Ashton also did a pastel head of Muskett in 1895, which he inscribed to her and which Muskett bequeathed back to him (p.c.).'.
  • 'Julian Ashton, Study of Alice Muskett 'done in class' 'Xmas 93', oil on wood panel, Art Gallery of New South Wales, purchased from Howard Ashton 1942 (pair to Ashton's portrait of Margaret Fleming).'.
  • 'Will Dyson, Caricature of Muskett reproduced in 1907 Society of Artists catalogue, 27.'.
  • 'Alice J. Muskett, Aspiration [Ideal Self Portrait], illustration to her own poem published Sydney Mail 9 December 1908 (ill. Heritage).'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions