Annie Dorrington

Also known as A. Dorrington, Annie Whistler
  • Artist (Painter)
Annie Dorrington (née Whistler) was a flower painter and designer. She was the only woman among the five winners (out of 32,823 entrants), who shared the £200 first prize for the design of the Australian flag first flown in 1901. She had six sisters. Their mother did not want her daughters to marry 'wild colonial boys', but Annie would defy her.

Citations

  • 'WA Death Records : 500/1926’.

  • Stevenson, Andrew (1 September 2001), 'What’s red, white and blue and ready for a royal telegram?’, Sydney Morning Herald, p. 5, (evidently based on research by historian Dr Elizabeth Kwan).

  • Gooding, Janda (1991), 'Wildflowers in Art: Artists’ Impressions of Western Australian Wildflowers 1699-1991’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, plates 50 and 51.

See also

  • 'plates 50 and 51, Wildflowers in Art: Artists' Impressions of Western Australian Wildflowers 1699-1991, 1991'.

Initial data sources

  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'