sketcher, daughter of Dr William Crowther and Sarah, née Pearson, came to Hobart Town with her parents in January 1825. Eliza attended Ellinthorp Hall, a girls’ school near Ross, and about this time amassed an album of sketches, watercolours and poems, by herself, her friends and her family (1834, Crowther Library). Her subjects include landscapes, birds, flowers and an initialled pencil sketch of a ruin probably copied from an English drawing book. Her six sisters all seem to have drawn too; youthful copies of thatched cottages, ruined abbeys and so on in the album may be their work (not all are initialled and few are signed).
On 10 December 1835 Eliza Crowther married William Blyth. Between 1837 and 1849 they had fourteen children. The family lived at Bushey Park, Macquarie Plains, near New Norfolk, and Eliza educated the children herself. No sketching activities are known after her marriage.
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