[1] She studied at the National Gallery school where she was taught by Phillips Fox, Jane Sutherland, and Walter Withers.
[2] She attended the Gallery School with her sister Elsie Barlow.
[3] In 1902 Serle travelled to Paris, France, where she was exposed to the Impressionists, which influenced her subsequent work.
[2] In 1922 she gave birth to their third child, Geoffrey Serle, an historian and Rhodes Scholar.
[4] Hacke Place in the Canberra suburb of Conder is named in her honour and that of her younger sister Elsie Barlow, the misspelling of their maiden name being gazetted in 1988.