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[[File:Burlington House.jpg|thumb|left|The Royal Academy at [[Burlington House]], where Stokes studied in the 1930s, and in the galleries of which her works were exhibited in 1953]]Constance Parkin was born in 1906 in the hamlet of Miram, near [[Nhill]] in western [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]].{{sfn|McCulloch|2006|p=911}} The family moved to [[Melbourne]] in 1920, where she completed her schooling at [[Genazzano FCJ College|Genazzano convent]] in the suburb of [[Kew, Victoria|Kew]].{{sfn|Summers|November 2009|p=4}} Constance was short, just under five feet tall, and had dark hair.{{sfn|Summers|2009|p=65}} She trained between 1925 and 1929 at the [[National Gallery of Victoria Art School]] in Melbourne. Over the summer of 1925–1926 the Gallery held a competition for its students, who were asked to paint "holiday subjects"; Constance won the prize for a landscape. The competition was judged by artist [[George Bell (painter)|George Bell]], who would have a continuing influence over her artistic career.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3742021 |title=Items of interest |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne|date=26 March 1926 |accessdate=19 November 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name=Williams>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Fred|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|location=Canberra|volume=7|chapter=Bell, George Frederick Henry (1878–1966)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bell-george-frederick-henry-5192/text8731|accessdate=27 September 2012}}</ref>
In 1930, Stokes was among artists who exhibited at a Melbourne gallery, the [[Melbourne Athenaeum|Athenaeum]]. Her painting, ''Portrait of Mrs. W. Mortill'', was one of only two to draw praise from prominent member of the [[Heidelberg School]], [[Arthur Streeton]],{{sfn|Summers|November 2009|p=4}} who described the work as a "rare attraction" that was "liquid and luminous".<ref name="CT2014">{{cite news|title=Portrait of a mystery|last=Summers|first=Anne|date=29 March 2014|work=[[The Canberra Times]]|pages=20}}</ref> At the end of her studies, Stokes won the National Gallery of Victoria Art School's prestigious National Gallery Travelling Scholarship, which allowed her to continue her training at the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] in London.{{sfn|Summers|November 2009|p=4}}<ref name="DAAOStokes">{{cite web|url=http://www.daao.org.au/bio/constance-stokes/|title=Constance Stokes b. 1906|work=Design & Art Australia Online|publisher=University of Sydney and University of NSW|accessdate=27 September 2012|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=https%3A%2F%2Frp.liu233w.com%3A443%2Fhttp%2Fwww.daao.org.au%2Fbio%2Fconstance-stokes%2F&date=2012-10-11|archivedate=11 October 2012}}</ref> In addition to her education at the Royal Academy, she studied under the French [[cubism|cubist]] painter and sculptor [[André Lhote]] in Paris in 1932.{{sfn|McCulloch|2006|p=911}} The following year she returned to Australia, where she married businessman Eric Stokes. The family settled in [[Collins Street, Melbourne]], and<!--where?--> Stokes had three children between 1937 and 1942.{{sfn|Summers|November 2009|p=5}} In later years, Stokes had a studio in the family home in [[Toorak, Victoria|Toorak]], a modernist house designed by architect Edward Billson.{{sfn|Summers|2009|p=89}}
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