Vida Lahey
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Frances Vida Lahey MBE was a prominent artist in Queensland, Australia. She exhibited widely from 1902 until 1965.
Vida Lahey in Queensland, c. 1924
Watercolour painting by Vida Lahey featuring Brisbane City Hall as seen from Albert Park with the Albert Street Methodist Church steeple to the left (1936)
A bowl of flowers, watercolour by Vida Lahey (1939)
Richard Godfrey Rivers
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Richard Godfrey Rivers, generally known as R. Godfrey Rivers, was an English artist, active in Australia and president of the Queensland Art Society from 1892–1901 and 1904–08.
Vida Lahey
…including conservationist Romeo Lahey. She attended Goytelea School at Southport, and later studied painting at the Brisbane Technical College under Godfrey Rivers. Her uncle financed a trip to New Zealand in 1902 which inspired some of her earliest exhibited works, as well as helping to set her up to study in…
Richard Godfrey Rivers 1925
Street in Old Sydney', by Richard Godfrey Rivers, 1889
Under The Jacaranda (1903) - R. Godfrey Rivers
Melville Haysom wins the Godfrey Rivers Trust art prize, 1935