watercolourist and sketcher, was a newly-wed, short-term resident of North Queensland who arrived with her husband, G.N. Marten, in 1873 and left in about 1877. They lived on a property named Winterbourne after their home in England, located in the Pioneer River district near Mackay, and Mrs Marten painted watercolours of several homesteads in the area. She apparently also collected and coloured photographs of local items of interest, notably one of a gigantic crocodile shot by her husband on the Pioneer River in July 1870, a few years before she arrived.
Her views of places seen on her travels are more impersonal than her Queensland views, although drawn with equal competence, notably a large, finished watercolour of Sydney Harbour (1873, Mitchell Library) evidently developed from a sketch in her collection of ten pencil and watercolour views (and two photographs) donated to the Mitchell Library by a descendant in 1970. Most are Queensland subjects, but Aden and the Suez Canal feature as well as Sydney.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1995
- Last updated:
- 2011
