Sophie Steffanoni b. 1873

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Sophie Steffanoni was an embroiderer and painter, who, despite exhibiting much of her work and receiving recognition for it, died just as her career was advancing, aged thirty-two. She removed the artificial barrier between art and craft.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 14226/1906’.

  • Fullagar, Col (4 January 2000), 'Information re grave site’.

  • 'Family papers’.

  • Lister, Lister W. (1924), 'Letter to Miss Brewster of Sydney Girls’ High School’, 14 August, in connection with a proposed donation of a Steffanoni painting to the school, received October 1924.

See also

  • 'Sophie Steffanoni, photograph (p.c.)'.
  • 'Heritage section 8, plate 333', Harvest Time Threshing 1898, oil on canvas 33 x 49 cm; inscr. l.l. `Sophie Steffanoni/1898'. Private collection.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions

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Other occupations
  • worked in family boarding house (ANZSIC code: 4400)
  • worked in family boarding house