Althea Mary Proctor (1879 - 1966)

Born 2 Oct 1879 in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Died 29 Jul 1966 at age 86 in Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Thea Proctor is Notable.

Althea was born in 1879. She passed away in 1966.

From The Australian Dictionary of Biography we see:

Alethea Mary (Thea) Proctor (1879-1966), artist, was born on 2 October 1879 at Armidale, New South Wales, elder child of William Consett Proctor, English-born solicitor and member of the Legislative Assembly (1880-87), and his Queensland-born wife Kathleen Janet Louisa, née Roberts. In the 1880s the family lived comfortably at Hunters Hill, Sydney, and in 1889 Thea was sent to boarding school at Armidale.....

From 1896 she attended Julian Ashton's art school, which emphasized drawing and the latest decorative ideas in composition. Fellow students included Elioth Gruner, George Lambert and Sydney Long (to whom she was briefly engaged in 1898). With Lambert, Long, and others she worked on the short-lived Australian Magazine (1899). In 1903 Thea Proctor went to London and studied at St John's Wood Art Schools and with Lambert.

Unmarried, Thea Proctor died at Potts Point on 29 July 1966 and was cremated with Anglican rites. Her portrait (1903) by Lambert is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Sources

• NSW BDM birth of PROCTOR, UNNAMED, Reg. No. 8716/1879, to parents WILLIAM C and KATHLEEN J L, registered at ARMIDALE

• Roger Butler, Proctor, Alethea Mary (Thea) (1879–1966), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/proctor-alethea-mary-thea-8122/text14187, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 18 September 2018.

• Thea Proctor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at: Thea Proctor

• Burke, Janine, 1980, Australian Women Artists 1840-1940, pages 176 & 177, Greenhouse Publications Pty. Ltd. Collingwood, Victoria.

• Thea Proctor from the Art Gallery of New South Wales website at: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/proctor-thea/

• Thea Proctor 1879 – 1966 from the National Portrait Gallery website at: https://www.portrait.gov.au/people/thea-proctor-1879