sketcher and watercolourist, was a niece of Emma von Stieglitz and a sister of Emily Bowring . She drew Brookstead, the Original Home of Robert Cowie on the St. Pauls River near Avoca, Tasmania in 1855 and sketched other buildings as well as plants during the late 1840s and 1850s, in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. The watercolours of wildflowers she contributed to her sister’s album are precise Regency-style specimens; the Sydney examples are dated August-October 1855.
In 1862 Cowie became the first secretary of the Free and Industrial School Association, Launceston, but later she moved to Melbourne. Some of her watercolour drawings of native flowers were shown in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, at which time she was living at 9 Royal Terrace, Nicholson Street, Fitzroy.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
