Janet Cumbrae-Stewart (1883-1960)

Janet Cumbrae-Stewart was regarded as one of the leading pastel artists of her generation both in Australia and overseas. Fighting family oppression to pursue her artistic career, Cumbrae-Stewart attended outdoor art classes with John Mather, who was associated with the Heidelberg School, then studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin. In her chaste nudes, sensitive portraits and landscape drawings, Cumbrae-Stewart showed dedication to an academic style of drawing. She concentrated on drawing the female nude and an intimite feminine domain, a new and controversial subject for a woman artist. In 1922 she moved to London and travelled extensively throughout Europe for almost two decades, developing an international reputation, and returned to Australia in 1939 before the outbreak of the war. She exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and the Old Salon in Paris, and had works commissioned by Queen Mary. She is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, all State and many regional gallery collections.

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