Violet Helen Evangeline Teague (21 February 1872 – 30 September 1951) was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n portrait painter and designer of murals, born in Melbourne and educated at the Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne.

She studied under E Phillips Fox and Tudor St George Tucker

Tudor St George Tucker

Tudor St George Tucker was born in Finchley in Middlesex the son of Captain Charlton Nassau Tucker, a retired cavalry officer in the East India Company's service. He came to Melbourne in 1881 in search of a healthier climate...

 in the Charterisville

Charterisville

Charterisville is the name given to the residence and property at 77 Burke Road Ivanhoe, Victoria Australia closely associated with the Heidelberg School of Australian art....

 group, and the National Gallery School under L Bernard Hall then overseas to Ernest Blanc Garin's school in Brussels

Brussels

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 and Hubert von Herkomer

Hubert von Herkomer

Sir Hubert von Herkomer , British painter of German descent. He was also a pioneering film-director and a composer. Though a very successful portraitist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic approach to the conditions of life of the poor...

's school in London.

From 1905 to 1914 she produced many woodcut

Woodcut

Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...

 prints after the Japanese style, and taught the techniques at the Victorian Arts and Crafts Society.

Her painting Boy with a Palette won a silver prize from the Old Salon, Paris

Paris

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 when exhibited in 1920, and was later hung at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

London

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. She has been reckoned among the best portraitists Australia has produced.

Publications

Birds in the Sunny South 1905

Nightfall on the Ti-tree (with Geraldine Rede) 1905