Lady Gwendoline Bragg b. c.1871

Also known as Gwendoline Todd
  • Artist (Painter)
Late nineteenth-century painter of watercolour landscapes who studied at the Adelaide School of Design in the late 1880s. Bragg was the wife of fellow painter Sir William Bragg who would go on to become the President of the Royal Society and a Nobel Prize winner.

Born Gwendoline Todd in Adelaide. Studied at the Adelaide School of Design c.1888. Married Professor W.H. Bragg in 1889 (later Sir William Bragg, President of the Royal Society, and Nobel Prize winner). Both she and her husband painted landscapes in watercolours and both exhibited them at the SA Society of Arts in 1896 – 'their paintings were praised in the press and pronounced virtually indistinguishable’. The Braggs moved to Yorkshire in 1909.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011