Lily Allport
Curzona Frances Louise (Lily) Allport (18 July 1860 – 29 April 1949) was a Tasmanian artist. She was born in Tasmania to Morton Allport, a solicitor and photographer, and Elizabeth Ritchie. Determined to pursue a career in art, Allport moved to England in 1888 with her mother Elizabeth and sister Eva.
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Lily Allport
Lily Allport · https: libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/AUTAS001124064445/AUTAS001124064445 · Public domain
- Full name
- Curzona Francis Louise Allport.
- Born
- 1860. · Tasmania.
- Died
- 1949. · Hobart.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Australia.
- Occupation
- painter and printmaker.
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Curzona Frances Louise (Lily) Allport (18 July 1860 – 29 April 1949) was a Tasmanian artist. She was born in Tasmania to Morton Allport, a solicitor and photographer, and Elizabeth Ritchie. Determined to pursue a career in art, Allport moved to England in 1888 with her mother Elizabeth and sister Eva.
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Lily Allport (1860–1949) was a painter and printmaker, of Australian and British nationality. The painter was born Curzona Francis Louise Allport in Tasmania and died in Hobart. Lily Allport worked in London. Works are held at Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Victoria and Print Collection.
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Initially supported by a yearly allowance from her mother and brothers, Allport shortly became financially self-sufficient through sales of her prolific works including oil paintings, watercolours, pastel drawings and relief prints. In Europe she studied with renowned artists including Hubert Vos and Charles Wellington Furse. In 1894, The Mercury newspaper reported that Allport was the first Tasmanian artist to have works exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.
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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1860 at Tasmania. Institutional cataloguing adds that lily Allport died in 1949 at Hobart. Institutional cataloguing adds that lily Allport is recorded at birth as Curzona Francis Louise Allport.
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