Janet Agnes Stewart (1883 - 1960)

Born 23 Dec 1883 in Brighton, Victoria.

Ancestors

Died 8 Sep 1960 at age 76 in Victoria, Australia.

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Biography

Janet Stewart is Notable.

Renowned Australian artist Janet Cumbrae-Stewart was born Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart at or about Brighton in Victoria in what would later become Australia.

She was the daughter of Francis Edward Stewart, an early settler of Gladstone, Queensland, and his wife Agnes, née Park, of Wellington, New Zealand.

From 1901 through 1907 Cumbrae-Stewart studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School, where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin. From 1909 through 1919 she exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society.

In 1922 she left Australia with her sister Mrs. Beatrice Peverill and spent the next 16 years painting and exhibiting in Europe. She returned to Australia in 1937; and by the outbreak of World War 2 she had already decided to stay.

A significant portion of her artistic output is studies of the female nude in pastel – and she is highly regarded for her work in this medium.

Ms Cumbrae Stewart passed away in September 1960 in Melbourne and it is believed she was Cremated at the Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne and her ashes scattered.

From STEWART to CUMBRAE-STEWART by Deed poll.

Her brother, Francis Cumbrae-Stewart, was instrumental in the name change from Stewart to Cumbrae- Stewart on the 3rd March 1889 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Sources

• Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages: Birth Registration no. 736 / 1884

• Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages: Death Registration no. 11686 / 1960

• Janine Burke, Cumbrae Stewart, Janet Agnes (1883–1960), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cumbrae-stewart-janet-agnes-5842/text9927, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 9 August 2019.

• Janet Cumbrae-Stewart from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cumbrae-Stewart

• From the Last Resting Place for Australian Artists at: http://www.australianartistsgravesites.com

• Burke, Janine, 1980, Janet Cumbrae Stewart (1883-1960), from Australian Women Artists 1840-1940, page 181, Greenhouse Publications Pty. Ltd. Collingwood, Victoria.

• 'Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart b. 23 December 1883 from the Design & Art Australia website at: https://www.daao.org.au/bio/janet-agnes-cumbrae-stewart/biography/

• THREE PASTEL PAINTERS from The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) of Saturday 2 June 1923, Page 11. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244029739?

• The Home : an Australian quarterly. Vol. 6 No. 4 (1 August 1925) on TROVE at: [1]

• The Australian woman's mirror. Vol. 1 No. 39 (18 August 1925) on TROVE at: [2]

• AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS OF TO-DAY JANET CUMBRAE STEWART by A.C from The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) of Saturday 5 September 1931, Page 8. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204329731?

• ARTIST BACK Away for 15 Years from The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Thursday 18 February 1937, Page 3. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11970408?

• ART NOTES : Figures and Landscapes in Pastel The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Wed 19 May 1937, Page 13. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203865291?

• Self-portrait [picture] creator Cumbrae Stewart, Janet Agnes, 1883-1960 on the National Library of Australia website at: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-135659355/view or https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1960574

• Works by Janet Cumbrae Stewart from the Art Gallery of New South Wales website at: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=cumbrae-stewart-janet

• Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart Auction Price Results from the INVALUABLE database at: https://www.invaluable.com/artist/cumbrae-stewart-janet-agnes-bgm603iufw/sold-at-auction-prices/

• Lewis-Jones, Marjorie, 2018, Intrepid women artists lured by the city of light, from the South Sydney Herald online, first viewed 9 August, 2019, at: http://www.southsydneyherald.com.au/intrepid-women-artists-lured-by-the-city-of-light/#.XU0Cy1QzbDc

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