Winifred Betts b. c.1875

Also known as Winifred Rhodes
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Painter)
Winifred Betts was a painter and craftworker in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She exhibited her student work at the Sydney Exhibition of Woman's Work in 1892 and in 1978 the Art Gallery of New South Wales featured her pokerwork vase in its 'Cicadas and Gumnuts' exhibition.

painter and craftworker, had student paintings and drawings in the Sydney Exhibition of Woman’s Work in 1892: Pupils’ Exhibits – Oil Paintings – no.9 Betts, Winifred, Wellesley College – 17 [years old] – [competition] 2 Oil Paintings from Nature; Pupils’ Exhibits – Drawings from Schools – no.69 Betts, Winifred – Wellesley College – [aged] 17 – [competition] Drawing from the Round; no.70 – [competition] Drawing from the Round.

Her craftwork was included in the AGNSW exhibition Cicadas and Gumnuts in 1978: cat.9 Vase with Mina lobata design c.1923, by Winifred Betts, Poker work (pyrography).

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011