Altough she was born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in England, Dora L Wilson spent most of her life in Australia, in Melbourne. She studied first at Somerset School and Methodist Ladies College before attending the National Gallery School where she was taught by Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin. After seeing Anders Zorn’s etchings in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria she enrolled in John Mather’s etching classes. The quality of her early etchings, as well as those by her fellow student Jessie Traill, led to their work being reproduced in The Lone Hand in 1907.
painter and etcher, won a silver medal for the best etching at the 1907 First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, Melbourne. Her pastel on paper Seated Nude (a duller, more illustrative and more mature woman than in Cumbrae-Stewart 's pastels) was offered at Deutscher-Menzies on 1 May 2002, lot 109 (est. $8,000-10,000).
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