Jane Rebecca Price was an Australian painter who was a foundation member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.
13 Facts About Jane Price
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Jane Price was a close associate of members of the group of painters known as the Heidelberg school.
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Jane Price's father, William Thomas Price, was a clergyman, her mother was Rebecca Jane Evans; she had five siblings.
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Jane Price trained as an artist at the Royal College of Art in London.
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At the age of 20, Jane Price migrated from England to Sydney, then moved to Melbourne two years later.
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Jane Price returned to Sydney several times but lived chiefly in Melbourne's suburbs, spending her final 13 years in St Kilda, at the house of her friend Ina Gregory, another artist who is associated with the Heidelberg school.
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Jane Price continually painted throughout her life, but, needing an income and somewhere to live, worked as a governess, which reduced her productivity as an artist.
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Jane Price was a governess for artists Alexander and Beatrix Colquhoun from 1903, and later for Frederick and Annie McCubbin.
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Jane Price's paintings were exhibited by the Victorian Artists Society between 1882 and 1906, and at other places in Melbourne.
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Jane Price enjoyed life-long friendship with artists who were central to the circle that came to be known as the Heidelberg school.
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Hammond and Peers record that Price is mentioned in a letter written by McCubbin to Roberts noting that he was pleased to see that "Janey Price did very well" in an exhibition held at McCubbin's house in Shipley St, South Yarra, in 1906.
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Jane Price died on 24 May 1948 at the age of 88, living in the house shared with her friend and fellow artist, Ina Gregory.
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Jane Price's work is represented in The National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia:.