Jane Price
Jane Rebecca Price (18 February 1860 – 24 May 1948) was an Australian painter who was a foundation member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Two of her works have been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria and two by the Art Gallery of South Australia. She was a close associate of members of the group of painters known as the Heidelberg school. Early life Price was born in Cheddar, Somerset, England, on 18 February 1860. Her father, William Thomas Price, was a clergyman, her mother was Rebecca Jane Evans; she had five siblings. Price trained as an artist at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London (then called the South Kensington Art School). Career At the age of 20, Price migrated from England to Sydney, then moved to Melbourne two years later. She returned to Sydney several times (1907–1910, 1925, 1935) 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. Price continually painted throughout her life, but, needing an income and somewhere to live, also worked as a governess, which reduced her