Ellen Nora Payne b. 1865

Also known as Ellen Field
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Painter)
Ellen Nora Payne was a painter and wood-carver. In 1891 she moved to Melbourne and studied under the Art Nouveau carver, Robert Prenzel. Payne also studied woodcarving and design at the University of London and at the South Kensington School of Art.

Citations

  • Atkinson, Russell (1975), 'Ellen Nora Payne, Woodcarver of Tasmania’, Launceston.

  • Dufour, Mary (1988), 'Ellen Nora Payne’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol. 11, Melbourne.

  • Miley, Caroline (1987), 'Beautiful & Useful: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Tasmania’, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery catalogue, Launceston.

  • Dufour, Mary (1981), 'The Crafts of Early Tasmania: 19th & 20th Centuries’, Crafts Council of Tasmania Report, Hobart 1981.

See also

  • 'Ellen Nora Payne in Her English Coach-House Workshop Carving the Memorial Pulpit for St Andrew's, Westbury 1905, photograph (p.c.)'.
  • 'ADD section 10, plate 426'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book