Annabella Alexandra Campbell Boswell b. September 1826

Also known as Annabella Alexandra Campbell Innes
  • Artist (Painter)
Annabella Alexandra Campbell Boswell was a diarist and accomplished flower painter who grew up in central west New South Wales before moving to Port Macquarie. Boswell's early attempts at drawing from nature were stymied by her then governess who taught them to draw from copies but she later returned to drawing and painting from nature in the company of her cousin.

Citations

  • Flowers, E., 'Archibald Clunes Innes’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2.

  • Griffiths, N. (1954), 'Some Northern Homes of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Herman, Morton (ed.) (1965), 'Annabella Boswell’s Journal’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Crittenden, Victor (ed.) (1992), 'Annabella Boswell’s Other Journal 1848-1851’, Canberra, ACT.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions