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Point Ormond (Red Bluff) St. Kilda
Elizabeth Parsons, 1831-18971881
State Library Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
The artist depicts a seaside locale familiar to many generations of Victorians, long a favourite place for walking and picnicking, and flanked by good bathing beaches.
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- Title: Point Ormond (Red Bluff) St. Kilda
- Creator: Elizabeth Parsons, 1831-1897
- Date: 1881
- Location: Point Ormond, Victoria
- Rights: This work is out of copyright. No copyright restrictions apply.
- lithograph: Painting
- View more information about this image in the State Library Victoria catalogue: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER1655020
- View a full-size version of this image: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/248326
- Physical dimensions: 18 x 61 cm.
- Medium: Oil on board
- A.E. Ferris: Elizabeth Parsons initially trained in England under James Harding, a noted watercolourist and painter of foliage. In 1870, after further study in Paris and a visit to the Barbizon artist's colony, where she discovered the joy of painting en plein air, Parsons immigrated to Australia with her family. Within seven months of arrival, her work was included in the first exhibition of the Victorian Academy of Arts, held at the State Library. Based primarily in Melbourne, Parsons continued her practise of painting en plein air, often travelling long distances to paint. Locales favoured by the artist included Lilydale, Phillip Island, the Gippsland Lakes, the Blue Mountains, parts of Tasmania and New Zealand, where members of her family lived. Parsons made a significant contribution to the artistic milieu of Melbourne, encouraging younger artists, especially women, and painting with some of the most prominent artists of her day. She was the first woman elected to the council of the Victorian Academy of Arts, later the Victorian Artists' Society, despite considerable male opposition.
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