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162 147 Isobel Rae (Australian, 1860-1940) A DEVIL ETAPLES, 1917 signed and inscribed with title charcoal, coloured chalks and watercolour on brown paper 15 by 11in. (38.1 by 27.9cm) Frame: 19 by 16in. (48 by 41cm.) Condition: A couple of tone spots, otherwise very good. Provenance: Collection of Glen Thompson, Irish military artist. Dedication on reverse on St John Ambulance Brigade notepaper to Captain MacIlwaine, signed C. E. Todd. Isobel Rae (18 August 1860 – 16 March 1940) was an Australian impressionist painter. After training at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria Art School, where she studied alongside Frederick McCubbin and Jane Sutherland, Rae travelled to France in 1887 with her family, and spent most of the rest of her life there. A longstanding member of the Étaples art colony, Rae lived in or near the village of Étaples from the 1890s until the 1930s. During that period, Rae exhibited her paintings at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Society of Oil Painters, and the Paris Salon. During WorldWar I, she was a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment and worked throughout the war in Étaples Army Base Camp. She and Jessie Traill were the only Australian women to live and paint in France during the war, however they were not included in their country’s first group of official war artists. In the mid-1930s Rae moved to south-eastern England, where she died in 1940. €1,000-€1,500 (£900-£1,350 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot147