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Madame Pfund (1887)

Madame Pfund (1887)

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Tom ROBERTS
born Great Britain 1856
arrived in Australia 1869
died 1931
Madame Pfund (1887)
oil on canvas on composition board
142.7 x 98.9 cm
Purchased, 1948
1830-4

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Elise Pfund arrived in Melbourne from Switzerland in 1863. She ran Oberwyl, an exclusive girls school in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, from 1867 to 1885. Along with her husband, she was an important patron of artists associated with the Heidelberg School.

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