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Australian painter and graphic artist. Born Margaret Rose McPherson in Adelaide, Australia, on April 29, 1875 (also seen as 1883); died in 1963; older of two daughters of David McPherson (a marine engineer) and Prudence (Lyle) McPherson; attended the Fort Street School, Sydney, Australia; studied art at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School and the Adelaide School of Design; married William George Preston, in 1919; no children.

A celebrated painter and one of the first Australians to recognize the beauty and value of Aboriginal art, Margaret Rose Preston was born Margaret Rose McPherson around 1875 in Adelaide and received classical art training at the Victoria Art School and the Adelaide School of Design.

Supporting herself by teaching, she was intent on becoming the finest still-life painter in the world. In 1904, Preston embarked on her first trip to Europe, and was shocked by the modernists she found there. It was not until a se