Louie Riggall b. 2 March 1868

Also known as Louise Blanche Riggall, Louise B Riggall
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Riggall was an academic painter who enjoyed early success in her career both in Melbourne and Paris before it was cut short by her death at age fifty in WW1.

Citations

  • Colligan (27 February 1902), 'Table Talk’.

  • Cusack, Frank (1973), 'Canvas to Campus: a history of the Bendigo Institute of Technology’, Melbourne, VIC [p.83].

  • Pearce, Flo (1987), 'Louie Riggall, her life and work’, Gippsland Heritage Journal, Gippsland, VIC [vol 2 no.1].

  • Peers, Juliet (1993), 'More Than Just Gumtrees’, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Traill, Jessie (15 February 1919), '[Obituary]’, Victorian Artists’ Society.

  • Riggall, Louise (1905), 'Diary’, Australian Manuscript Collection, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Riggall, Horton, [Conversations with].

  • Armitage, Wendy; and members of the Riggall family, [Information and access to Riggall paintings from].

  • Information sourced from Dewar, Shona.

  • Laura Olcelli (2014 thesis) Questions of Authority: Italo-Australian Travel Narratives of the Long Nineteenth Century

    http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12581

See also

  • 'Juliet Peers, catalogue 1995'.
  • 'PORTRAIT: Louise Riggall in Nurses Uniform during WWI, photograph. Courtesy Juliet Peers'.
  • 'Section 11, plate 462'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book