THE HERALD

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

11 January 1926

(page 3)

PAINTS MINIATURES.

Mrs. Marks Arrives From America.

Sydney, Monday.—A Melbourne girl who has made a name for herself as a painter of miniatures arrived in Australia yesterday, after an absence of eleven years.

Mrs. Montagu Marks—she signs her signature—Stella Lewis Marks—who studied in the Melbourne National Gallery, has painted scores of well-known Americans, including the Vanderbilts, the Belmonts, and eight members of the Studebaker family.

A beautiful study of popular Princess Patricia is one of Mrs. Marks best miniatures. She has a gift of portraiture, and a flair for color which lifts her work into the first rank.

MEMBER OF R.M.S.

She is one of the three women members of the Royal Miniature Society of whom Bess Norris Tait, the first woman member, is also an Australian.

The third, Mrs. Gaver Phipps (Rose Dakin), is an Englishwoman who has made her home in Melbourne.

Mrs. Marks has exhibited in every well-known institute and gallery in America, and she never receives less than £100 for a small miniature.

Mr. and Mrs. Marks and their daughter, Patricia, will be in Australia only eight weeks, part of which time will be spent in Melbourne. Mrs. Marks hopes to hold an exhibition of her miniatures in Sydney and Melbourne before she returns to America.