Born

26 December 1853
New York, United States

Died

25 July 1928
Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Occupation

Artist and Teacher

Summary

Jane Sutherland arrived in Sydney with her family in 1864. She studied at the National Gallery School of Design, and held a number of exhibitions from 1878. Sutherland was a leader in the movement away from the nineteenth-century tradition of studio art, and toward the plein-air style, sketching directly from nature.

Sources used to compile this entry: Lindsay, Frances, 'Sutherland, Jane (1853-1928)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australian National University, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120158b.htm.