Winifred Rumney b. 1870

Also known as Mrs Winifred May Cooper, Miss Winifred May Quinnell
  • Artist (Painter)
Winifred May Quinnell, born 1870 in Multan, Pakistan (then India), arriving in Australia with her family in 1889. Lived in Brisbane from 1890 where she taught at Sandgate Ladies’ College from 1890 to 1892. By her own account both she and her brother Cecil Watson Quinnell, were artistically promising from an early age.
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Citations

  • Larner, Bronwyn; & Considine, Fran (1988), 'A Complementary Caste’, Surfers Paradise, Qld : Centre Gallery catalogue.

  • Searle, Ross (1988), 'Artist in the Tropics’, Townsville, Qld.

  • Rumney, Winifred, 'My Career as an Artist’, Brisbane, Qld : Queensland Art Gallery artist’s file (typescript).

See also

  • 'Section 8, plate 335'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book