painter and sketcher, showed one painting, Hawker and Hawks , and two pen-and-ink sketches, Rubens and Henry Prince of Wales , with the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia at Sydney in 1847. Her Dead Game was lent to the exhibition by Edward Lord. Possibly one or more of these entries should have been attributed to a sister since later that year the 'Misses Havens’ showed fourteen works in the Parramatta Exhibition of the Fine Arts at The King’s School which were praised by the Sydney Morning Herald on 28 October 1847. No description was given, however, since 'If we mistake not these young ladies’ abilities were noticed at the time of the Sydney exhibition; it is unnecessary to do more than mention their presence’.
Lucy Havens married Thomas Hyndes of Chestnut House, Cumberland Place, Sydney. After his death she became the second wife of the Presbyterian minister at East Maitland, William Purves, on 29 July 1859. At the 1861 Maitland Industrial Exhibition Mrs Purves won a prize for her watercolour paintings. She died in 1867, survived by William, who died in 1870.
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