Tempe Manning b. 1897

Also known as Constance Manning, Constance Tempe Manning
  • Artist (Painter)
Female painter of landscapes and portraits whose paintings of two of Australia's first members of parliament were rejected by the Historic Memorials Committee.
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painter, painted a low-tide view, La Perouse , (with tent to left like an artist’s camp), a few years after she returned from Paris. Manning lived in Bowral for most of her life (12 Merigan Street?). Had a retrospective exhibition at Berrima.

In 1945 Tempe Manning and Mary Edwards were commissioned to paint the portraits of the first two women members of Federal Parliament by the Historic Memorials Committee, 'for ultimate inclusion in a National Portrait Gallery’; but both her portrait of Senator Dorothy Tangey (now lost) and Edwards’s portrait of Dame Enid Lyons (TMAG) were rejected as 'unsatisfactory’ and replaced with portraits by A.D. Colquhoun and William Dargie.

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1999
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