Fanny Gibbes b. c.1822

Also known as Frances Minto Gibbes
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Fanny Gibbes was a sketcher and the younger sister of well-known sketcher and watercolourist Mary Murray. Gibbes' surviving sketches depict views of Sydney's Point Piper House, where she lived with her family after arriving from England. An associate of Conrad Martens and Frederick Garling, Gibbes later lived in New Zealand with her husband Alfred Ludlam.

Citations

  • Toy, A. et al. (1988), 'Hearth and Home’, Historic Houses Trust catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • Pike, A. (c.1966), 'John George Nathaniel Gibbes’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.1, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Gibbes, J.G.N. (1861), 'Codicil to Will 28 October 1861’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: ML A5317 2.

  • Information sourced from Kerr, James Semple.

  • Staff Writer (1992), 'Gibbes, Fanny’, The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic., p.290.