Annie Eliza Beal b. c.1860

  • Artist (Carver)
A woodcarver, Beal belonged to that class of cultured Edwardian gentlewomen who had the luxury of leisure time to indulge their artistic endeavours. Her Gothic Chair, exhibited in the 1907 Women's Work Exhibition in Melbourne, was later donated to the National Gallery of Victoria.
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wood-carver, was the daughter of Charles Beal (1821-88) and Amy, née Murch, prominent early Western District (Vic) settlers. Like Hilda and Dorothy Leviny , daughters of Ernest Leviny of Castlemaine, she belonged to that class of cultured Edwardian gentlewomen which had the leisure to indulge in craft activity. She was living at Lorne when she entered her Gothic Chair in the Women’s Work Exhibition in Melbourne in 1907. Annie Beal never married. Her chair descended to her great niece, Josephine Kendrick, who presented it to the National Gallery of Victoria in 1985.

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Lane, Terence
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1995
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