Janet Cumbrae-Stewart

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.

Janet Cumbrae-Stewart
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]

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]

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. 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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