May Vale ( English May Vale ; 1862 - 1945 ) - Australian artist; one of the first women members of the Buonarotti Society .
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Biography
Born November 18, 1862 in Ballarat, Victoria. She was the third child of eleven children and the second eldest daughter (of six daughters) in the family of William Mountford Kinsey Vale and his wife Rachel Vale (née Lennox ) - both were born in London . Her family moved to Melbourne in 1872, then partially returned to London in 1874. [2]
Vale studied at London's Royal College of Art . Then, returning to Melbourne in 1879, she attended the National Gallery Art School , studying painting with Oswald Rose Campbell , George Folingsby and Frederick Maccabbin . Her colleagues at the school were Jane Sutherland and Clara Southern .
In 1893, May Vale opened a studio at 119 Swanston Street , where she gave drawing lessons and worked as a portrait painter. In 1895, she founded an art school at Flinders Buildings , where she taught plein air painting. One of her students was . [2]
In 1906, Vail returned to London, where she studied enamel coating at Chelsea College of Arts , and also attended classes at the Burbeck Institute . She later traveled to Paris and studied at the Julian Academy for some time. On August 20, 1908 in Chelsea, she married Alexander Gilfillan (he died in Singapore in 1940). After the death of her husband, she lived in her brother's house in the town of Black Rock .
She exhibited her paintings and enamels in the Victorian Society of Artists , Women's Art Club and Melbourne Athenaeum . In 1927, held a personal exhibition in Queens Hall .
May Vale was a member of the Victorian Society of Artists and the Yarra Sculptors' Society . Her work can be seen at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales .
She died on August 6, 1945 in the Black Rock suburb of Melbourne and was buried in the Cheltenham Cemetery cemetery .
Notes
- ↑ Australian Biographical Dictionary - MUP , 1966.
- ↑ 1 2 May Vale - Biography