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Clara Southern Australian artist, 1860-1940
Australian painter. One of the first generation of progressive, professionally educated Australian women artists, she began her training as a pupil of Mme Mouchette, painter, schoolmistress and founder of the Alliance Fran?aise in Melbourne; and later took lessons from Walter Withers. As a student at the National Gallery of Victoria (1883-7) she was nicknamed 'Panther' for her lithe beauty. From mid-1888 she shared a teaching studio with Jane Sutherland in the new purpose-built Grosvenor Chambers, where Tom Roberts was a neighbour. She had 'caught the "Impressionist" fever', reported Table Talk (2 Aug 1889), and showed 'a great variety of charming little sketches, which however are not intended for exhibition'. She showed with the Victorian Artists' Society (1889-1917): mainly subjects around Kyneton and Melbourne's outer suburbs, painted in the fresh, quasi-Impressionist style characteristic of the Heidelberg school.
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Painting ID:: 79398 The Back of the Barn
The Back of the Barn, painting, oil on canvas, 46.5 x 30.5 cm, by Clara Southern
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Painting ID:: 79399 Landscape with Cottage
Landscape with Cottage, painting, oil on canvas, 34.4 x 21.7 cm, by Clara Southern
Date circa 1900
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Painting ID:: 82320 The Road to Warrandyte
painting, oil on canvas on board, 49.5 x 96.0 cm, by Clara Southern
Date circa 1905-1910
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Painting ID:: 82343 The Back of the Barn
oil on canvas, 46.5 x 30.5 cm, by Clara Southern
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Painting ID:: 82344 Landscape with Cottage
oil on canvas, 34.4 x 21.7 cm, by Clara Southern
Date circa 1900
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Clara Southern
Australian artist, 1860-1940
Australian painter. One of the first generation of progressive, professionally educated Australian women artists, she began her training as a pupil of Mme Mouchette, painter, schoolmistress and founder of the Alliance Fran?aise in Melbourne; and later took lessons from Walter Withers. As a student at the National Gallery of Victoria (1883-7) she was nicknamed 'Panther' for her lithe beauty. From mid-1888 she shared a teaching studio with Jane Sutherland in the new purpose-built Grosvenor Chambers, where Tom Roberts was a neighbour. She had 'caught the "Impressionist" fever', reported Table Talk (2 Aug 1889), and showed 'a great variety of charming little sketches, which however are not intended for exhibition'. She showed with the Victorian Artists' Society (1889-1917): mainly subjects around Kyneton and Melbourne's outer suburbs, painted in the fresh, quasi-Impressionist style characteristic of the Heidelberg school.
. Related Artists to Clara Southern: | Hirshfield Morris | Ellen Bernard Thompson | MOSTAERT, Jan | Govert Dircksz Camphuysen | Jeanne Hebuterne |
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