Mary Elizabeth Martindale

Also known as Mary Elizabeth Knocker
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
English female colonial sketcher whose sometimes bleak sketches of NSW landscapes echoed her husband's short-lived career as superintendent of roads.

Citations

  • (1992), 'Mary Martindale’, The Dictionary of Australian Artists, [Kerr, Joan (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.

  • Abbott, G. A. (1969), 'Ben Hay Martindale’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, (Volume 3), [Pike, D., (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.

  • Kerr, J. (1980), 'Colonial ladies’ sketchbooks’, Art and Australia (Volume 17, Number 4).

  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (PXA2498).

See also

  • 'DAA p. 519, Mary Elizabeth Martindale, The Vehicle, watercolour, 9.3x 18.6 cm, from her sketchbook, Our Trip to the Blue Mountains 1860. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.'.
  • 'Section 6, plate 227', Jacqueline Hicks and Joan Kerr (combined biogs).

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870