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Mary
(1891)
Medium
oil on canvas on plywood
Measurements
55.4 × 40.3 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
Gallery location
Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
In 1877, McCubbin entered the School of Painting at Melbourne’s National Gallery School where he studied under Eugène von Guérard, with Tom Roberts as a fellow student. When Roberts returned from overseas in 1885, he and McCubbin led plein-air painting expeditions to Box Hill, Mentone and later in the Heidelberg area. McCubbin was nicknamed ‘the Proff’ within his friendship group for his wide reading and philosophising. McCubbin frequently used members of his family as models for his major figurative compositions. Mary is one of the artist’s major portraits of the period and depicts Mary Jane Moriarty, the sister of McCubbin’s wife, Annie Lucy Moriarty.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.l.: F McCubbin
Accession Number
2004.191
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Portraits
Subjects (specific)
costume (mode of fashion) women (female humans)