D. Wignall

  • Artist (Painter)
It is not surprising this colonial female artist painted Government house in Tasmania and exhibited it in Melbourne, as her father was a Hobart mayor towards the end of the nineteenth century.

painter daughter of a Hobart mayor, exhibited at Hobart in 1888. At the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition of 1888-89 Miss Wignall of Hobart showed an oil painting in the Tasmanian Court, Government House, Hobart (cat.21). Christie’s had a very nice scene of the Derwent with Government House in the distance by Wignall in 2000 – almost von Guerardish but with a much lighter palette, according to John McPhee.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011