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Baxter, Annie Maria, b. 1816
Annie Maria Baxter was a prolific writer who kept meticulous diaries of her life in Australia. Her few surviving drawings are now held at the ...
How, Louisa Elizabeth, b. 1821
Amateur photographer, she appears to have been self taught. Her husband was a merchant and she photographed prominent visitors to their Sydney home as well ...
Le Souëf, Caroline, b. 1834
Painter and decorative artist, after arriving in Australia her family settled in the Goulburn River Valley where her friendly contact with the local Aboriginal people ...
Darley, Lucy Forrest, b. 1839
A 'lady of great culture', a prominent figure and a 'grande dame', Lady Darley developed a talent for 'spirit drawing'. Working intuitively she developed psychic ...
Creeth, Helen, b. 1859
Helen Creeth was born in 1859. She was a painter, china painter, teacher and photographer. Creeth trained as an art teacher at the South Kensington ...
Roth, A. Constance, b. 1859
Constance Roth, painter, cartoonist, decorative artist, art teacher and journalist, taught life drawing at Julian Ashton's in 1885. She departed Australia in 1892, travelling to ...
Price, Jane, b. 1860
Jane Price was known as a painter and poet. She was associated with the Heidelberg school.
Roberts, Mary Ellen, b. 1866
A dressmaking and craft teacher vociferously committed to vocational training for women, Mary Roberts was a zealous teacher and curriculum designer at Sydney Technical College. ...
Fuller, Florence, b. 1867
Florence Fuller's artistic talents were such that she was able to give up her job as a governess and open her own studio before the ...
Kong Sing, Justine, b. 1868
A miniature portrait painter, Justine Kong Sing trained with Julian Ashton in Sydney and at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. She also worked and lived ...
Ohlfsen-Bagge, Dora, b. 1869
Sculptor and painter who lived and worked throughout Europe from 1880s. She re-visited Australia several times to exhibit her medallions but lived out her life ...
Goddard, Emily, b. 1870
After being educated at Loreto Convent in her early years, Emily returned to her religious life at the age of 33 and was given Saint ...
Griffin, Marion Mahony, b. 1871
Binney, Muriel Mary Sutherland, b. 1873
A painter, etcher and designer who exhibited both in Australia and abroad and who is thought to have lessons from Dattilo Rubbo. Binney was also ...
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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 ...
Devereux, Mrs W. P. [Bessie], b. 1874
Mrs W.P. (Bessie) Devereux was one of the most significant and original of L.J. Harvey's early students as she included wheel throwing among her skills.
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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 ...
Tweddle, Isabel May, b. 1875
Dynamic and pragmatic modernist painter, she was very influential on young women artists in the 1930s.
Tweedle, Isabel , b. 1875
Leviny, Kate, b. 1877