Mary Ellen Bundock b. 1817

Also known as Ellen Ogilvie
  • Artist (Painter)
A painter who worked on an eclectic range of canvases including the cover of a papiêr-maché writing case. Bundock was the wife of sketcher William Bundock and the mother to eight children, including the painter Mary Bundock.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 9084/1898; 9086/1898’.

  • Rutledge, M. (c.1974), 'Edward David Stewart Ogilvie’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol 5, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Farwell, G. (1973), 'Squatter’s Castle’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Kerr, Joan (1982), 'The architectural importance of early colonial ladies’ sketchbooks’, Australasian Victorian Studies Association: Conference Papers 1980, Newcastle, NSW.

  • Bundock, Mary (Mrs Murray-Prior), 'Memoirs of early days on the Richmond River’, typescript, (original Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney).

  • Toy, A. et.al (1988), 'Putting the colonial lady painter in her place’, Hearth and Home, Historic Houses Trust catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Yulgilbar Station Journal 1850-55’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, ML A993.

Initial data sources

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