Jessie Scarvell

Scarvell was a student of William Lister Lister and exhibited regularly with the Art Society of New South Wales in the 1890s. She was an exponent of Australian Impressionism and painted en plein air and her work is represented in the S.H. Ervin collection and the Art Gallery of NSW. Her paintings depicting bright green sweeping fields against a purple mountainous backdrop were praised by critics of the time.

Scarvell was selected to be included in the Exhibition of Australian Art in London organised by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and held at Grafton Galleries in September 1898. She was represented by five paintings including (Liverpool Range, Murrurundi, NSW). The exhibition featured 114 artists, including the well-known leaders of the Australian Impressionist movement, Streeton; Roberts; Conder; McCubbin; as well as a number of women artists, whose names have not become as celebrated today.