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''Untitled Still Life with Fruit' (no date)
1890

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Victoria School of Art and Design

In 1893 Alice Egan began to attend the Victoria School of Art and Design in Halifax. Her father was not enthusiastic about a career as an artist for his daughter, encouraging her instead to become a milliner. Although the millinery business was notorious for its low wages, her father apparently believed it offered more financial security than art. Alice, however, was determined to pursue training as an artist and paid for her tuition by the sale of watercolours. Her course of study at the Victoria College of Art was interrupted by her growing business as a china painter, however, and she did not complete her program and receive her diploma until 1899. In the 1899-1900 term Alice Egan taught china painting at the college.