SUTHERLAND, JANE (1853-1928), painter and teacher, was born on 26 December 1853
in New York, eldest daughter of George Sutherland, woodcarver, and his wife Jane,
née Smith, both Scottish born. The family arrived in Sydney in 1864 and moved to
Melbourne in 1870 where George became a drawing instructor with the Department of
Education and exhibited with the Victorian Academy of Arts (1875-78). He was
joined by his brothers, Alexander and John, and the Sutherlands played a
distinguished role in science, education and the arts; Alexander, George and
William were Jane's brothers.
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Jane Sutherland arrived in Sydney with her family in 1864. She studied at the National Gallery School of Design, and held a number of exhibitions from 1878. Sutherland was a leader in the movement away from the nineteenth-century tradition of studio art, and toward the plein-air style, sketching directly from nature.
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Jane Sutherland advocated women's art in late nineteenth century Australia.
painter, was born in New York on Boxing Day 1853, the eldest daughter of George Sutherland, wood-carver, and Jane, née Smith, a Glaswegian couple who returned to Scotland before migrating to Sydney in 1864 then moving to Melbourne in 1870.This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
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