painter, studied art in Paris as an amateur interest before her marriage, at which time she copied the portraits of 'the famous beauties of the court of Louis XIV’ in the Palace of Versailles. When married and living in Victoria, she exhibited two coloured chalk portraits at Sandhurst (Bendigo) in September 1866, which the Bendigo Advertiser considered 'show the attainment of artistic excellence in the hand that drew them’. Later that year, three pastel drawings by A. Thunder of Sandhurst were shown at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition. In 1880 Mrs A. Thunder of Inkerman Street, St Kilda, exhibited three pastel drawings in the Melbourne International Exhibition: Forget Me Not , Madonna and Child , and a study from life.
By 1891 circumstances were such that Mrs Thunder advertised that she was turning to art professionally and had opened a studio at 8 McGuigan’s Chambers in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne (near Bourke Street). She had on show a number of copies 'of celebrated pictures by the old masters’ and 'a number of original studies which merit close attention’. The latter included miniatures and pastel drawings as well as paintings on glass, metal and wood, suitable for home decoration, for which she was happy to take commissions. She told Table Talk that she was about to hold an art union of her best paintings.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
