Jessie Shippard Cowan b. 12 October 1845

Also known as Mrs None Hillman
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Painter)
Jessie Shippard Cowan was a painter, art teacher and a silk painter. Her eldest sister Agnes and Mrs Knight opened a boarding school in Perth in the late 1860s and Jessie taught drawing there. She died in 1893.
Tags: Painting on silk

Citations

  • Cowan, Peter (1978), 'A Unique Position: A Biography of Edith Dircksey Cowan 1861-1932’, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, WA.

  • Erickson, R. (comp.) (1988), 'The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre-1829-1888’, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, 4 volumes.

  • (1855), The Western Australian Almanack, WA.

Initial data sources

  • Western Australian artists, designers & makers (1829-1959)