Mary Ellen Blaxland b. 1815

Also known as Mary Molle
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
The youngest of merchant and settler John Blaxland's 11 children, Mary Ellen Blaxland and her sisters were all encouraged to sketch by their mother and the drawings of Mary Ellen, that depict the renovated family estate Newington at Parramatta, are held in the Blaxland Papers at the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

Citations

  • Irving, T.H., 'John Blaxland’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1.

  • McDonald, P.R. & Pearce, B. (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • Mowle, L.M. (1978), 'A Genealogical History of Pioneer Families of Australia’, Adelaide, SA.

  • Roxburgh, Rachel (1974), 'Early Colonial Houses of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Blaxland Papers’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, manuscript 462.

  • Dowling, H., 'Memoirs’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Ab 50.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, Candice.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Walker, A.F., 'Memoirs’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, C195.

  • Walker, A.F., 'Albums’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

Initial data sources

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