THE SUN

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

11 January 1926

(page 10)

FAMOUS MINIATURIST.

MRS. M. MARKS HERE.

AUSTRALIAN’S SUCCESS.

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

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

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

She is one of three women members of the Royal Miniature Society, of whom Bess Norris Tait, the first woman member—is also Australian. The third, Mrs. Gayer-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 500 dollars for a small miniature.

Mr. and Mrs. Marks and their fair-haired 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 both Sydney and Melbourne before she returns to America.