Margaret Thomas b. c.1843

Also known as Miss C. Thomas, M. Thomas
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
painter and sculptor, the only woman in any of the Australian colonies known to have modelled large-scale sculptures. She was successful enough to retire on the proceeds of her portraits.

Citations

  • Kerr, Joan (1992), 'Margaret Thomas’, Dictionary of Australian Artists.

  • Clarke, P. (1988), 'Pen Portraits’, North Sydney.

  • Clayton, Ellen C. (1876), 'English Female Artists’, Tinsley Brothers, London.

  • Graves, A. (1901), 'A Dictionary of Artists … from 1760 to 1893’, London.

  • Hutchison, N. (1840), 'Australian women sculptors’, Australian Women Artists: One Hundred Years 1840 1940, (ed.) Burke, J.), Ewing Gallery catalogue, Melbourne 1975.

  • Johnson, J. (1974), 'The Royal Society of British Artists 1824 1893 and the New English Art Club 1888 1917’, Woodbridge (Suffolk).

  • (1890), 'Coo-ee’, (ed. Martin, Harriette Anne ), London.

  • Scarlett, Ken (1980), 'Australian Sculptors’, Melbourne.

  • Sladen, Douglas (1888), 'Australian Poets 1788/1888’, London.

  • Thomas, Daniel (1976), 'Australian Art in the 1870s’, Art Gallery of New South Wages catalogue, Sydney.

  • Tipping, Marjorie (1976), 'Margaret Thomas’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, 6 (ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward), vol. 6, Melbourne.

  • Wood, C. (1971), 'The Dictionary of Victorian Painters’, Woodbridge (Suffolk).

  • Kerr, Joan (1995), 'Margaret Thomas’, Heritage, (ed. Joan Kerr), Sydney.

  • Graves, A. (1905), 'The Royal Academy of Arts’, London.

  • Sladen, Douglas (1915), 'Twenty Years of my Life’, London.

  • (1907), 'Illustrated Catalogue of the National Gallery, Melbourne’, National Gallery of Victoria, The Buvelot Gallery cat.8, p. 149 (Summers) and cat.22, p. 153 (Barry), Melbourne.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions
  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book