Grace Cossington Smith AO OBE (22 April 189210 December 1984) was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and Post-Impressionism...

 to her home country. Examples of her work are held by every major gallery in Australia.
She was born Grace Smith, in Neutral Bay, Sydney, second of five children of London-born solicitor Ernest Smith and his wife Grace, née Fisher, who was the daughter of the rector of Cossington

Cossington

Cossington is the name of several settlements in England:* Cossington, Kent is a small settlement in Kent, home of a possible megalithic site* Cossington, Leicestershire is a village in the Soar Valley in Leicestershire...

 in Leicestershire

Leicestershire

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.