Janet Cumbrae-Stewart

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Janet Cumbrae-Stewart
Janet Cumbrae-Stewart self portrait.jpg
Self-portrait, 1911
Born
Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart

(1883-12-23)23 December 1883
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died8 September 1960(1960-09-08) (aged 76)
Melbourne
NationalityAustralian
EducationMelbourne National Gallery School
Known forPainting
Partner(s)Miss Argemore ffarington “Bill” Bellairs[1]

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart (23 December 1883 – 8 September 1960) was an Australian painter. She spent the 1920s and 1930s painting in Britain, France and Italy.[2] She was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.

Biography[]

Cumbrae-Stewart was born in Melbourne, Australia on 23 December 1883.[3] Her birth name was Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart. She added the hyphen Cumbrae-Stewart in the early 1900s and then dispensed with the hyphen to sign her work.[3]

From 1901 though 1907 Cumbrae-Stewart studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School, where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin.[3] From 1909 through 1919 she exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society.[3] In 1922 she left Australia and spent the next decades painting and exhibiting in Europe.[4]

She returned to Australia in 1939.[3]

Cumbrae-Stewart died 8 September 1960 in Melbourne.[3]

Legacy[]

In 2003 the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery held a retrospective of Cumbrae-Stewart's work entitled The Perfect Touch.[5]

In 2017-2018 Cumbrae-Stewart was included in the Australian National Trust show Intrepid Women – Australian women artists in Paris 1900-1950.[6]

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ Lewis-Jones, Marjorie. "Intrepid women artists lured by the city of light". South Sydney Herald. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Janet Cumbrae Stewart 1883-1960". ABC Radio National. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Burke, Janine. "Cumbrae Stewart, Janet Agnes (1883–1960)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Janet Cumbrae Stewart". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Janet Cumbrae Stewart : the perfect touch : MPRG Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 27 May-13 July 2003". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Intrepid Women – Australian women artists in Paris 1900-1950". National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
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