Sketcher and painter, eldest child of James Woodward Turner and his first wife. Had studied in Paris and arrived with her parents and siblings. The family sailed from Portsmouth in 1829 arriving in Western Australia in 1830. The family then sailed down to their grants at Augusta. Ann Eliza married James McDermott and then Dr Alfred Green. She had a daughter Ann Elizabeth McDermott.
Examples of her work are at the Toodyay Gaol Museum. They include a pencil drawing of a Greek head. A series of her drawings (or her daughter’s) of York are in the J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
