Inez Abbott

Inez Marie Abbott (1886–1957) was an Australian water colour artist. She was one of the early Australian modernists who lived and worked in Europe in the 1920s and 30s, studied at the Academie Delecluse and exhibited in the Paris Salon. In the 1940s she was a finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne and Archibald prizes. Personal life Inez Abbott came from a prominent Bendigo family. Her parents were Richard Hartley Smith Abbott and Mary Hannah Abbott. Richard Abbott was a Senator, businessman and president of the Bendigo Art Gallery, establishing the RHS Bequest fund.

Art career Inez Abbott in white smock with family, taken in 1895. In the collection of the Bendigo Historical Society.Abbott studied at Girton Grammar School and later at the Bendigo School of Mines. In 1938 one of her paintings of gum trees and wattle was purchased for the Jeu de Paume Museum, now in the Centre Pompidou. Cover page of catalogue of exhibition of water colours by Inez Abbott at The Sedon Galleries. Source: State Library Victoria She returned to Bendigo in 1938 and her work was exhibited in the Felton Centenary exhibition at the Fine Art Society in Melbourne in 1939 and at Sedon Galleries in Melbourne in 1939. and she was included in exhibitions of Australian artists by Greenaway Gallery, Victoria in 1997 and 1998.