M. Jilt

  • Artist (Painter)
Nothing is known of the painter M.Jilt but for a c.1860 oil painting of a Indigenous Queenslander that features this signature and which is held by the National Library of Australia.
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Painter, signed a large oil on canvas painting of a Queensland Aborigine with tribal decorations standing and staring at the viewer, which the National Library of Australia has dated c.1860. Nothing is known of the artist and there is some speculation that the portrait was possibly painted from a photograph.

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011

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Related collections
  • Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)