Frederick McCUBBIN

Mary
(1891)

Medium

oil on canvas on plywood

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

Medium

oil on canvas on plywood

Measurements

55.4 × 40.3 cm

Place/s of Execution

Melbourne, Victoria

Inscription

inscribed in brown paint F McCubbin

Accession Number

2004.191

Department

Australian Painting

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
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation

Gallery location

Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia

Subjects (general)

Human Figures Portraits

Subjects (specific)

costume (mode of fashion) women (female humans)

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