Mary Murray b. 16 October 1817

Also known as Mary Gibbes, Minnie Gibbes, Minnie Murray, née Gibbes Mary Murray
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A sketcher, Mary Murray arrived in Sydney in 1834, the daughter of Colonel Gibbes who designed Kirribilli's Wotonga House, which now forms part of Admiralty House, official home of the Governor-General. Murray's sketches and albums are held in private collection and the National Library of Australia.

Citations

  • Wilson, G. (1968), 'Murray of Yarralumla’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1992), 'Murray, Mary (Minnie)’, The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870, edited by Joan Kerr, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic. p.558.

  • Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Clarke, P (1986), 'A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857’, Sydney, NSW.

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