Viola A. Quaife b. 1 May 1885

Also known as V. A. Q., Viola Quaife, Viola Austral Smith, Viola Austral Quaife, V A Quaife, Viola Ure Smith, Mrs Sydney Ure Smith, Mrs S Ure Smith
  • Artist (Painter)
Quaife was a Painter who was a student of Alfred R. Coffey in Sydney (1903), and later attended the Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton and Sydney Long (c1908-10) where she was in the same student cohort as Nelle Rodd, Elioth Gruner, Isabel McWhannell, Ruby Winckler, Cecil Humprey Percival, and others.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 22397/1945’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 5640/1909; 2129/1873’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 9170/1885’.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Underhill, Nancy (1991), 'Making Australian art 1916-49 : Sydney Ure Smith, patron and publisher’, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Vic.

  • Information sourced from Scheding, Stephen.

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Residences
  • 1885 - 1909 Woollahra, Sydney, NSW ("Hughenden")
  • 1907 - England, UK (Travelled with sisters and brother)
  • 1908 - Woollahra, Sydney, NSW
  • 1909 - c.1920 Sydney, NSW (With husband Sydney Ure Smith)
  • c.1920 - (unknown)
  • - 1945 Potts Point, Sydney, New South Wales (No. 6, Praneonia, 123 Macleay Street, )
  • 1885 - 1909 Woollahra, Sydney, NSW ("Hughenden")
  • 1907 -
  • 1908 -
  • 1909 - c.1920 Sydney, NSW (With husband Sydney Ure Smith)
  • c.1920 - (unknown)
  • - 1945 Potts Point, Sydney, New South Wales (No. 6, Praneonia, 123 Macleay Street, )