The Marvellous Mary Stoddard
Forgotten Australia30 Joulu 2025

The Marvellous Mary Stoddard

In 1881, plucky Mary Stoddard won the Great Australian Christmas Card Competition and launched her long and brilliant career in the Sydney art scene. While colonial gentlemen usually didn’t take ‘lady artists’ terribly seriously, Mary’s mastery of the pen and brush, particularly when doing portraits of powerful men, commanded respect, praise and plenty more prizes. She was a true pioneer.


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ABC Radio National Link to the interview about Federation:

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/nightlife-history/106188548


To see Mary Stoddard and Catherine Devine’s postage stamp designs:

https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/here_s-how-to-classify-the-1888-centenary-stamps-of-new-south-wa.html


To see Mary Stoddard’s design for the Melbourne Exhibition Certificate

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/253965


To see Mary Stoddard’s still life From Earth and Ocean

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/5951/


To see Mary Stoddard’s portrait of Sir Henry Parkes:

https://education.parliament.nsw.gov.au/history-article/portraits/


To see the National Archives of Australia collection mentioned:

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/AdvSearchSeries.aspx


Then:

In the field ‘Series number’ type A1861.

On the next page, you’ll see 'Items in this series on Record Search - 9448'

Click 9448 – and on the next page order by ‘Digitised Item’.

Then click on whichever description takes your fancy.

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