Clara Southern b. 3 October 1860

Also known as Panther, Mrs John Flinn
  • Artist (Painter)
Clara Southern, painter, studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's Art Schools in 1883-87 under Frederick McCubbin and George Folingsby. Fellow students included Josephine Muntz-Adams, Jane Sutherland, A.M.E. Vale, Emanuel Phillips Fox and Arthur Streeton. Nicknamed 'Panther' for her lithe beauty, Clara Southern was admitted in 1886 as one of the early women members of the students' Buonarotti
associate of
Victorian Artists' Society
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associate of
Australian Art Association
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associate of
Buonarotti Society
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associate of
Lyceum Club
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associate of
Eaglemont artists' camps
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associate of
Heidelberg artists
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associate of
Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors
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associate of
Annie May and Mina Moore
Artist (Photographer)