Alice Jane Muskett

His 1893 study in oils of Alice in class wearing pince-nez spectacles and a white dress, and the portrait 'The Coral Necklet' (1901), are in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

[1] Muskett then went on to study in Paris at the Académie Colarossi for several years between 1895 and 1898, during which time she exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français.

'In Cumberland Street' showed the artist's versatility in painting views portraying an idealised scene of city life in an area better known as a Sydney slum.

[5] David Henry Souter, founder and president of the Society of Artists, Sydney, referred to Alice Muskett as "probably the most talented of our women painters" in 1909.

[7] After Muskett's career as an artist had been established she began writing verse and short stories published in a range of newspapers in particular, The Sydney Mail, The Lone Hand and The Bulletin.