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Alice Chapman, Artist (1860-1929)
Image: Framed Oil Painting - 'Sitting in State', by Alice Chapman (Artworks)
Source: Museum Victoria
Alice Chapman was born in 1860 at Inglewood and died in 1929. She studied art at the gallery in Melbourne and was a contemporary of members of the Heidelberg School. She painted a number of portraits of local government officials and other dignatories, and was a member of the Victorian Artists' Society. She was elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Bendigo Art Gallery in 1894. A contemporary newspaper reported that 'Miss Chapman's method of work is most sound, always as a preliminary step making charcoal and crayon studies of her subjects, and frequently smaller studies in colour of the intended picture. She paints freely, and with a firm touch, but … she avoids the impressionist's hurried and merely suggestive style…'
References:
Museum Victoria History and Technology Department Supplementary File: SH 961795
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Painting - 'Gretchen', Oil, Framed, by Alice Chapman, circa 1888
This painting by Alice Chapman (1860-1929) was exhibited in the 1888-89 Centennial Exhibition in Melbourne. Two other paintings by the same artist were also exhibited then - `Fruit' an ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2 -
Painting - 'Sitting In State', Alice Chapman, Oil, Framed, circa 1888
This painting by Alice Chapman was exhibited in the 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition. Two other paintings by the same artist were also exhibited at the exhibition: 'Fr ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1
