Name

Inez M. Abbott

Other names

Abbott, Inez Marie.

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

1896

Birth place

Bendigo, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Death date

1957

Death Place

Bendigo, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Movements

Europe 1922-1938

Occupations

Artist (painter)

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC), Europe

Context

Australia

Biography

Born in 1896, painter Inez Marie Abbott was the eldest daughter of Richard HS Abbott, a businessman and politician, as well as a founder, president and well-known patron of the Bendigo Art Gallery (Busowsky Cox, 2018; Wimborne, 2000). Inez Abbott trained under Arthur Thomas Woodward at the Bendigo School of Mines. She continued her studies in Paris, where her work was exhibited at Galerie Charpentier (now occupied by Sotheby’s) and at the Salon Nationale des Beaux Arts, alongside artists including Rupert Bunny, Agnes Goodsir, Hilda Rix-Nicholas, Max Meldrum, and Ethel Carrick Fox ("Academy Pictures: Australian Exhibitors in Paris", 1930; "Country News.", 1931). Her work was also collected by The Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume and is now held in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Upon returning to Australia in 1939, Inez exhibited at Melbourne’s Sendon Galleries. She was a finalist in the Wynne Prize and Archibald Prizes between 1940 to 1944, however the recognition she experienced in Paris eluded her in Australia. She died in Bendigo in 1957.

Courtesy of Margaret Teusner, 2019.

Last Updated

01 Feb 2024