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Payne, Ellen Nora, b. 1865
Ellen Nora Payne was a painter and wood-carver. In 1891 she moved to Melbourne and studied under the Art Nouveau carver, Robert Prenzel. Payne also ...
Baker, Christina Asquith, b. 1869
Portrait and figure painter who studied in Paris and in Melbourne at the National Gallery School under Frederick McCubbin. Baker was still exhibiting at the ...
Fleay, Maude Edith Victoria, b. 1869
A painter who studied under Frederick McCubbin, Glover was regarded for her natural history subject matter. She was also a writer and music teacher, and ...
Alsop, Edith Annie Mary, b. 1871
Painter, illustrator and printmaker who studied at the Central School of Arts in London and under André Lhôte in Paris. Despite her formal fine art ...
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Griffin, Marion, b. 1871
Working in the same league as Frank Lloyd Wright and Hermann von Holst, Marion eventually married and worked with Walter Burley Griffin on public and ...
Warren, Helena, b. 1871
Self-taught photographer who became both the local press correspondent and a producer of humorous trompe l'oeil postcard images.
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Carrick Fox, Ethel, b. 1872
Painter born in England. She was a complex, independent, hard-working, resourceful woman whose chief interests, apart from securing recognition for her late husband's work, were ...
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Geach, Portia, b. 1873
An active feminist all her life, Portia Geach spent much of her life tirelessly campaigning on behalf of women's rights. Her art making also reflected ...
Gregory, Ina, b. 1874
Ina Gregory and her sister Ada both studied at the National Gallery School and were also associated with the artists' colony at Charterisville. She was ...
Wilkie, Nora, b. 1874
Melburnian watercolourist and sometime treasurer of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Plante, Ada, b. 1875
Plante studied at the Académie Julian, Paris, where she lived off little more than biscuits. She later emerged as Modernist, and in 1932 was a ...
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...
Serle, Dora Beatrice, b. 1875
Painter and china painter, Serle was active for over 70 years in Geelong and Melbourne though she studied briefly in England. She received most critical ...
Grant, Gwendolyn, b. 1877
She embraced no radical modernist philosophy; her belief in the virtues of restraint, knowledge, study and, indeed, the moral significance and nobility of art, tempered ...
Richardson, Maude Rose, b. 1879
Maude Rose Richardson was born in 1879. With her friends Alma Pericles and Mrs W. E. Stephenson, she formed the West Australian Women Painters and ...
Leviny, Dorothy, b. 1881
Enamel and metal worker,devoted a good part of her life to the various crafts that interested her. Lived in the Leviny home, Buda, outside Castlemaine, ...
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Reynell, Gladys, b. 1881
After studying painting under Margaret Preston, who she travelled with to Paris and London, she taught craft to shell-shocked soldiers. On returning to Australia she ...
Traill, Jessie, b. 1881
Painter and etcher, an outstanding feature of her life was her extensive travelling between France, England and Australia. She received much praise for her etchings ...
Gurdon, Nora, b. 1882
A painter, based in Victoria. Her known work has a loose feel with a visible Streeton or Roberts influence.
Lahey, Vida, b. 1882
A traditional painter specializing in still life and landscape subjects, but is probably best known for Monday Morning, a painting of women's domestic labour. She ...