Jessie E. Scarvell Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1862 - d. 1950

A painter, Scarvell exhibited frequently with the Art Society of New South Wales in the late 1800s and was included in the 'Exhibition of Australian Art in London' in April 1898.

Painter, was a pupil of Lister Lister . In 1895 she had a studio at 49 Roslyn Gardens (advertisement in 1895 Art Society of NSW exhibition catalogue). She appears to have first exhibited with the Art Society of NSW in 1892, when the Illustrated Sydney News (3 September 1892, p.4) noted: 'Miss Jessie E. Scarvell is another of the new exhibitors and shows great promise’. She was elected an ordinary member of the Society’s Council in 1894-96 and 1898-99 [possibly continuously]. The Art Gallery of New South Wales [AGNSW] holds her The Lonely Margin of the Sea 1894, oil on canvas, presented by H. Bush in 1894. It was shown in the Art Society of NSW’s annual exhibition in 1894 (cat.332) then was included in the Grafton Gallery’s Exhibition of Australian Art in London in April 1898. A review in the Pall Mall Gazette mentioned it among 'all the good things’ that there was no space to mention (reprinted Sydney Morning Herald [ SMH ], 12 May 1898, p.7). Scarvell is said to have exhibited at least 67 landscapes, yet the only one identified to be in a public collection is that in the AGNSW. Several oil landscapes by Scarvell in the National Library of Australia’s Rex Nan Kivell collection are apparently dated c.1875-1879 and so are thus thought to be by another artist. Scarvell’s Still Waters , exhibited with the Art Society of NSW in October 1892, was reproduced in the Building and Engineering Journal (29 October 1892, p.178). ... Flourished - fl. 1892 - 1899