Agnes B. Macqueen

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Female colonial sketcher and governess who endured great hardships, for a time surviving only by selling her drawings. She later kept house for her brother who promised to pay off her sponsorship debt to the London Female Middle Class Emigration Society .

Citations

  • Clarke, P. (1985), 'The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882’, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870