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Born in Victoria in 1864, Agnes Goodsir studied with Arthur T. Woodward at the Bendigo School of Mines from 1898 to 1899 and later in Paris at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, the Academie Julian, Colarossi’s and Academie Delecluse. Principally a portrait and floral painter working in oils, she lived in Paris from 1900 until her death in 1939. She was elected an Associate of the New Salon in 1924, and a Member in 1926 and was awarded a Silver Medal at the New Salon in 1924, as well as exhibiting at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute in London. On a short visit to Australia in 1927 she exhibited at the Macquarie Galleries in Sydney and the Fine Arts Gallery in Melbourne. In 1938 four of her oils were shown at the sesquicentennial exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
NGA collection includes a work The Parisienne c1924 which highlights her portraiture and her close association with Rachel Dunn, nicknamed Cherry. Her forte in portraiture included paintings of Banjo Paterson and Bertrand Russell.
In 1998 a retrospective of her work was held at the Bendigo Art Gallery and The Goodsir Scholarship awarded by the Bendigo Art Gallery is named in her memory