Amalie Sara Colquhoun

Amalie Sara Colquhoun
Amalie Colquhoun in 1945
Born
Amalie Sara Field

(1894-03-20)20 March 1894
Murtoa, Victoria
Died16 June 1974(1974-06-16) (aged 80)
East Melbourne, Victoria
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting, Educator
Spouse
Archibald Colquhoun
(m. 1931)

Amalie Sara Colquhoun (20 March 1894 – 16 June 1974)[1] was an Australian landscape and portrait painter who is represented in national and state galleries. In addition to painting landscapes, portraits and still lifes, Colquhoun designed and supervised the construction of stained glass windows for three of Ballarat's churches, St Andrew's Kirk, Lydiard Street Uniting Church and Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. She studied in both Melbourne and Sydney, exhibited in England and Australia and taught in the school she started with her husband in Melbourne.[2]

  1. ^ Amalie Sara Colquhoun b. 20 March 1894
  2. ^ Perry, Peter W (2007). "Colquhoun, Archibald Douglas (Archie) (1894–1983)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.