Frances Leonora Macleay b. 9 November 1793

Also known as Fanny Macleay, Fanny L. Harington, Fanny L. Harrington
  • Artist (Painter)
Philanthropic colonial female painter whose detailed watercolours of flower arrangements included European and Australian flora. Her art was influenced by a lifelong association wih scientific thinkers.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : V1836411 20/1836’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : V1836109 20/1836’.

  • Windshuttle, Elizabeth (1992), 'Fanny Macleay’, The Dictionary of Australian Artists, [Kerr, Joan (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1966), 'William Sharp Macleay’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Volume 1, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Earnshaw, Beverly & Hughes, Joy (1993), 'Fanny to William: The Letters of Frances Leonora Macleay 1812-1836’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Graves, A. (1905), 'The Royal Academy of Arts’, London, England, UK, (reprint, Bath 1970).

  • Kerr, J. (1988), 'Putting the colonial lady painter in her place’, Hearth and Home, (Toy, Ann et al.), Historic Houses Trust catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • Roxburgh, R. (1974), 'Early Colonial Houses of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Windschuttle, E. (1988), 'Taste and Science: The Macleay Women’, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, NSW.

  • Macleay, Fanny, 'Letters 1812-1836 to W.S. Macleay’, Macarthur Papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (A4300-A4302).

  • Windschuttle, E. (1977), 'The Female School of Industry’, BA (Hons) thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Hughes, Joy.

  • Information sourced from Toy, Ann.

  • Windschuttle, E. (1988), 'Fanny Macleay’, 200 Australian Women, [Radi, Heather (ed.)], Sydney, NSW.

  • (1966), 'Robert Brown’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Volume 1, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1966), 'Alexander McLeay’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Volume 1, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (c.1830), Curtis’s Botanical magazine, [Brown, Robert (ed.)], London, England, UK.

  • (1967), 'Alexander McLeay’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Volume 2, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1967), 'William Sharp Macleay’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Volume 2, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1967), 'Robert Brown’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Volume 2, Melbourne, Vic.

See also

  • 'Heritage section 7, plate 271'.
  • 'IMAGE: section 7, plate 271. Fanny Macleay (1793-1836), (Still Life with Australian Flowers) 1830, watercolour 71.5 x 50.5 cm. Private collection, England. Photograph Historic Houses Trust'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions
  • DAA with additions