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Margaret Baskerville 

Baskerville was the most widely commissioned woman sculptor in Australia from c. 1910 to her death in 1930. Around the time of the first world war and into the 1920s, she was responsible for a number of major civic memorials in Melbourne and in rural towns. 

She trained as a painter at Melbourne's National Gallery School, and undertook private sculpture lessons with Charles Douglas Richardson during the later 1890s, and overseas in London c. 1903-1906 at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington 

See photograph of her working on the Tommy Bent Statue here

          This statue can be found in the Domain,
                     opposite the Shrine


Margaret Baskerville: Nurse Edith Cavell Memorial,
unveiled 1926, carved marble with cast
bronze relief panels, The Domain, Melbourne

 
Written by Dr Juliette Peers and photography &  web site by ER

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