Portia Mary Bennett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian artist
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Place of Birth: Balmain, New South Wales, Australia
About Portia Mary Bennett
- Portia Mary Bennett (28 January 1898 – 1 May 1989) was an Australian artist. The daughter of William Albert Bennett, a harbour pilot from London, and Portia Bohannah Booth, born in Australia, she was born in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney.
- Her father drowned while she was still young.
- She was educated at Fort Street Girls’ High School and then studied with Antonio Dattilo Rubbo at the school of the Art Society of New South Wales.
- She attended the Sydney Teachers' College, studying art there with May Marsden.
- She also attended the Julian Ashton Art School.
- She taught at Chatswood Intermediate School and Darlington Public School and then, from 1921 to 1925, was on the teaching staff of the Sydney Teachers' College.
- In 1933, she was a founding member of the Perth Society of Artists.In 1925, she married William Henry James Wallace, a marine engineer, and moved to Brisbane with him.
- In 1932, they moved to Perth.
- The couple had four children.She worked mainly in watercolour, painting outdoors.
- Her subjects included boats, landscapes and cityscapes of Perth.
- She was particularly interested in the architecture of the city, as well as scenes of urban life.
- Bennett won the watercolour prize from the Perth Society of Artists in 1951 and, in 1952, was awarded the Claude Hotchin Art Prize for watercolour.
- The University of Western Australia held a retrospective of her work in 1986.She died at home in Nedlands, a suburb of Perth, at the age of 91.Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Holmes à Court Gallery.
- In 2005, some of her artworks were included in an exhibition of images of Perth over the years which was held at the Perth town hall.
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