Mr Mackenzie

  • Artist (Painter)
Male colonial artist who painted Scottish subject matter and exhibited at the Victorian Fine Arts Society. He may have worked as an assistant to the head teacher of the School of Art and Design, Prahran Mechanics Institute.
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painter, exhibited two Scottish subjects with the Victorian Fine Arts Society in August 1853: Snow Piece, near Edinburgh and Moonlight, vide 'Old Mortality’ . Both were for sale. The artist was possibly the Mr McKenzie who was assistant to the head teacher Thomas Peppercorn in the School of Art and Design at the Prahran Mechanics Institute during the early 1870s. The school had closed for lack of pupils by 1879.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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Related stub person groups
  • Victorian Fine Arts Society, Melbourne, Victoria (associate of)
  • School of Art and Design, Prahran Mechanics Institute, Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria (associate of)
Related people
  • Peppercorn, Thomas (associate of)
Related works
  • Moonlight, vide 'Old Mortality' (creator of)
  • Snow Piece, near Edinburgh (creator of)