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171: 33: 129:. She was educated by her mother and from a young age showed literary ability, contributing to the press both in prose and verse. In 1855 she decided to study painting in Europe, and towards the end of that year went with her mother to London. She was said to be the first Australian born woman artist to study abroad. She had a letter of introduction to 105:(17 November 1831 – 15 April 1867) was an Australian artist. Three of her paintings were donated to Australian national collections, but in 1888 they were in "a shed". They were then moved to Sydney University and "The Marriage at Cana" is at the 152:
In 1862, Ironside was represented in the New South Wales court of the London Great Exhibition, and her two pictures received good reviews from the critics. In Rome, she had an excellent reputation as a painter.
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found them about 1888 stored "in a sort of shed" as there was "not room enough in the gallery". Adams praised them highly, and suggested that room might be found in the Melbourne gallery by taking out three by
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Good as her reputation was in Rome she was soon forgotten in her native country, and no specimen of her work is in any of its national galleries. Three of her pictures,
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At the time of her death a fellow artist spoke of her flowers "painted as never were flowers painted before . . . her rich
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Ironside was born in Sydney, only surviving child of James Ironside, commission agent, and his wife Martha Rebecca,
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Lindsay, Kiera (2020). "'Grave-paved Stars': Comparing the Death of Two Artists in Nineteenth-century Rome".
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Ironside died in Rome on 15 April 1867 of tuberculosis. She taken back to London and interred at
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Pesman, Ros (1 July 2003). "In search of professional identity: adelaide ironside and Italy".
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Works by Adelaide Ironside, The Collection, Art Gallery New South Wales
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Redman. Her grandfather was Sydney's Chief Gaoler and had been himself
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who showed much interest in her work. From London, Ironside went to
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Marriage at Cana of Galilee, 1861 and reworked two years later
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Painting
Art Gallery of New South Wales
transported to Australia
forgery
Sir James Clark
John Ruskin
Rome
Prince of Wales
William Charles Wentworth
West Norwood Cemetery
Titian

national gallery at Sydney
Francis Adams
George Folingsby
Sydney University
Art Gallery of New South Wales






Ironside, Adelaide Eliza (1831–1867)
Australian Dictionary of Biography
MUP


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