Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian artist. Born in the Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin, at the National Gallery of Victoria Art S
Rix Nicholas, c. 1920, dressed as "the spirit of the bush"
Self-portrait of Frederick McCubbin, Australian Impressionist painter and Rix Nicholas's first major influence
Arthur Streeton, as painted by Tom Roberts. Rix followed his advice to study under many different teachers.
Detail of Men in the Market Place, Tangier (1914), showing a typical subject of Rix Nicholas's Moroccan work, and her post-impressionist style adopted during this period.
Frederick McCubbin was an Australian artist, art teacher and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.
The Pioneer, 1904, National Gallery of Victoria
Frederick McCubbin, 1913-17, by May and Mina Moore, State Library of New South Wales