• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE6175

De Vries, Susanna Mary

  • AM
  • de Vries-Evans, Susanna Mary
    Evans, Susanna Mary
    de Vries, Susanna
(1935 – )
  • Born 1935, England
  • Occupation Art historian, Author, Editor, Journalist, Lecturer

Details

Susanna Mary de Vries was born in England and studied visual arts and history at the Sorbonne in Paris and Madrid. She was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study Renaissance art in Florence and worked as an art historian and arts journalist in London and Spain.

Susanna emigrated to Australia in 1975. Here she developed a keen interest in Australian art and history and worked as a consultant editor for Australian collector’s quarterly and as a freelance journalist. Susanna was also head of Rare Books and Antiquarian Prints, James R. Lawson Fine Art Auctioneers, from 1979 to 1982.

Susanna has contributed to many publications, including The Journal of Art (USA) and The Antique Collector (UK), and has published fifteen books.

In 1996 Susanna was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to art as an author and lecturer in Australian and European art history and history.

Read

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
    • Papers of Susanna de Vries, 1997-2000 [manuscript]
  • National Library of Australia
    • [Biographical cuttings on de Vries-Evans, Susanna, art historian, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    • [Biographical cuttings on Susanna De Vries-Evans, writer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
  • John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection
    • 5557 Susanna De Vries Typescripts 1998-2004
  • Fryer Library, The University of Queensland
    • Susanna De Vries Papers

Related entries


  • Related Concepts
    • History and Historians