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''Alice Egan's Studio in the Roy Building, Halifax, 1898 to 1899''
1898
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Studio in the Roy Building, Halifax

In 1896, with the money she had earned from her commission for the game plates for Ishbel Aberdeen's dinner set, Alice Egan rented a studio in Roy Building on Barrington Street in downtown Halifax. She was able to buy her own kiln and she established herself as a china painter and teacher. A comparison of her studio with that of Adelaide Alsop Robineau suggests the influence Robineau had on her Nova Scotian student. At about this period Alice Egan also spent some time studying with Dorothea Warren O'Hara, who taught cloisonné and enamels on porcelain.