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Margaret Rose Preston (1875-1963), was born on 29 April 1875 at Port Adelaide, eldest daughter of David McPherson, marine engineer, and wife Prudence Cleverdon (d.1903), née Lyle.
By 1885 the family was living in Sydney where Rose about 1888 began training with Lister Lister. In Melbourne in 1893 she enrolled at the National Gallery's school of design under Frederick McCubbin.
Her father was admitted in February 1894 to Parkside Lunatic Asylum, Adelaide, where he died next year. In June 1894 she joined her sister and mother in Adelaide. She exhibited with the (Royal) South Australian Society of Arts (and continued to do so annually when in Adelaide). Returning to Melbourne in July 1896, she enrolled at the National Gallery's school of painting under Bernard Hall and with a painting, 'Still Life', won a year's free tuition
Inheriting her mother's money in 1903, she moved to a new studio where one of her students was Bessie Davidson. 'Eggs' (1903), painted in an academic illusionist style, reveals her skill. After the selection committee of the Society of Arts rejected what she believed to be her 'best still life', she left Adelaide on 2 July 1904, bound for Europe with Davidson
I find that Margaret's prints/artworks to be very contemporary for the period in which she was working, thinking well ahead. Today if she was producing this work she would not be considered old school Preston would still be up there as a contemporary artist.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/preston-margaret-rose-8106
Margaret Rose Preston (1875-1963), was born on 29 April 1875 at Port Adelaide, eldest daughter of David McPherson, marine engineer, and wife Prudence Cleverdon (d.1903), née Lyle.
By 1885 the family was living in Sydney where Rose about 1888 began training with Lister Lister. In Melbourne in 1893 she enrolled at the National Gallery's school of design under Frederick McCubbin.
Her father was admitted in February 1894 to Parkside Lunatic Asylum, Adelaide, where he died next year. In June 1894 she joined her sister and mother in Adelaide. She exhibited with the (Royal) South Australian Society of Arts (and continued to do so annually when in Adelaide). Returning to Melbourne in July 1896, she enrolled at the National Gallery's school of painting under Bernard Hall and with a painting, 'Still Life', won a year's free tuition
Inheriting her mother's money in 1903, she moved to a new studio where one of her students was Bessie Davidson. 'Eggs' (1903), painted in an academic illusionist style, reveals her skill. After the selection committee of the Society of Arts rejected what she believed to be her 'best still life', she left Adelaide on 2 July 1904, bound for Europe with Davidson
I find that Margaret's prints/artworks to be very contemporary for the period in which she was working, thinking well ahead. Today if she was producing this work she would not be considered old school Preston would still be up there as a contemporary artist.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/preston-margaret-rose-8106
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