Mildred
LOVETT
Australia
1880
–
1955
France, England 1929
52.7 (h) x 34.0 (w) x 27.7 (d) cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, gift of Julian Ashton 1920
Mildred Lovett, who had been a pupil with Julian Ashton from 1898 to 1899, returned to Sydney in 1909. At this time she made a portrait of Long in terracotta. The bust was praised by the critic of the Lone Hand who wrote: ‘Miss Lovett paints vases most charmingly … and the clay sketch she exhibits of Mr. Sid Long shows that she possesses the first essential of the sculptor’s art, a knowledge of character and the significance of the “masses”’ (1 April 1910).
Mildred Lovett, who had been a pupil with Julian Ashton from 1898 to 1899, returned to Sydney in 1909. At this time she made a portrait of Long in terracotta. The bust was praised by the critic of the Lone Hand who wrote: ‘Miss Lovett paints vases most charmingly … and the clay sketch she exhibits of Mr. Sid Long shows that she possesses the first essential of the sculptor’s art, a knowledge of character and the significance of the “masses”’ (1 April 1910).
Mildred Lovett, who had been a pupil with Julian Ashton from 1898 to 1899, returned to Sydney in 1909. At this time she made a portrait of Long in terracotta. The bust was praised by the critic of the Lone Hand who wrote: ‘Miss Lovett paints vases most charmingly … and the clay sketch she exhibits of Mr. Sid Long shows that she possesses the first essential of the sculptor’s art, a knowledge of character and the significance of the “masses”’ (1 April 1910).
