Clara Southern, painter, studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's Art Schools in 1883-87 under Frederick McCubbin and George Folingsby. Fellow students included Josephine Muntz-Adams, Jane Sutherland, A.M.E. Vale, Emanuel Phillips Fox and Arthur Streeton. Nicknamed 'Panther' for her lithe beauty, Clara Southern was admitted in 1886 as one of the early women members of the students' Buonarotti