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Name	Mary Cecil Allen
Born	2 September, 1893 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	7 April, 1962 (aged 68) Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States of America
Religious Influence	Anglican Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Education *	National Gallery art school (Melbourne) (student, 1910-1912) Slade School of Fine Art (UK) (student, 1912-1913) National Gallery art school (Melbourne) (student, 1913-1916)
Occupation or Descriptor *	landscape artist (1913-1926) Victoria, Australia portraitist (1913-1926) Victoria, Australia landscape artist (1926-1935) Overseas portraitist (1926-1962) Overseas art critic (1928-1929) Overseas
Legacies *	Mary Cecil Allen Memorial Lecture (Art Teachers' Association of Victoria) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Australian Art Association (member) Twenty Melbourne Painters (member) Victorian Artists' Society (member)

* Dates are approximate

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