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.
James Peter Quinn was an Australian portrait painter born in Melbourne.
Hilda Rix Nicholas
…Among the artists active there was Frenchman Jules Adler, who took an interest in Rix's work, as well as many Australians, including Rupert Bunny, James Peter Quinn, Edward Officer and one of the colony's longest-term residents, Iso Rae. Around 1909, Hilda Rix met Wim Brat, an architecture student from a wealthy…
James Quinn (1939) Self portrait. AGNSW
My friend Harold Parker, c. 1907. Oil on canvas on board, 35.5 x 31 cm., collection of the National Library of Australia
James Quinn painting John Monash
James Quinn standing fifth from the left in this group portrait of Australian official war artists, 1916-1918 by George Coates, 1920. Oil on canvas, 124.2 x 104.5 cm. The painting presents, left to right: front — George Bell; standing — John Longstaff, Charles Bryant, George Washington Lambert, A. Henry Fullwood, Quinn (leaning over Leist), H. Septimus Power, Arthur Streeton; and seated back — Will Dyson, Fred Leist.