Mary Ellen Marsden b. 1806

Also known as née Marsden Mary Betts
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Female colonial poet, watercolourist and sketcher who posed for another painter in the act of painting flowers, although no floral still-lifes by her have been found.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 8597/1885’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : V183045 14/1830; V18305009 3B/1830’.

  • 'NNSW Birth Records : V18061647 1A/1806’.

  • Reeve, G.G. (1928), 'Chaplain Samuel Marsden and his five famous daughters’, Windsor and Richmond Gazette, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (newspaper cuttings), Newspaper cuttings from the 13th of July to the 10th of August.

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

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

  • Betts, Mary (1871), 'Lines Written on the 100th Anniversary of the Birthday of the Rev. Samuel Marsden’, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

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