Anna Maria Lewin

  • Artist (Painter)
Botanical artist, arrived at Sydney in 1800, without her husband, and was forced to defend her honour against accusations of improper behaviour on the voyage. She apparently did some of the drawings for her husband's projected series of books.

Citations

  • Lewin, John William (1822), 'The Birds’.

  • Lewin, John William, 'Prodromus Entomology’.

  • Information sourced from Neville, Richard.

Initial data sources

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