Myfanwy pavelic biography of albert
Myfanwy Pavelic, born Spencer, was born in Victoria, BC, in At the age of six, she met the influential artist, Emily Carr, who mentored her and.
Myfanwy Pavelic was one of Canada's most renowned portraitists.!
Myfanwy Pavelic
Myfanwy Pavelic, CM OBE RCA DFA (April 27, 1916 – May 7, 2007) née Spencer, was a portrait artist.
Early life and career
Born in Victoria, British Columbia to an upper-class family, her first interests in fine art came after meeting with Emily Carr on Vancouver Island who later gave a brief series of instruction to Pavelic.
Aside from a few months of study with a Yugoslav artist, she was self-taught as a painter.[1] She studied at Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School in Montreal, Canada as a boarder.[2][3] During the Second World War, she held a one-person exhibition of portraits in Canada and donated the proceeds to the Red Cross.
That person was Tessa Pavelic, the only child of famed portrait painter Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic.She later married a diplomat and had one daughter who suffered a disability.
Pavelic was one of few Canadian artists who had their work shown at the National Portrait Gallery,[4] where her portrait of Yehudi Menuhin[5] was displayed.
She later donated the portrai