	Anderson has had a long career both internationally and within Australia. At the University of Melbourne she studied History and Fine Arts (BA Hons I, 1962-1966). In 1967 Charles Mitchell, invited her to Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, to begin work on a doctoral dissertation on Venetian Renaissance painting. In 1970 she was elected the first woman Rhodes Fellow at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, at a period when Rhodes Scholarships were unavailable to women. There she competed her doctorate on Giorgione, and remained as a lecturer in art history at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, from 1975 to 1996.