Miss Fitzgerald

  • Artist (Painter)
A botanical painter whose watercolours of flowers are now in the Customs House Museum, Goondiwindi, Queensland. She was lost at sea returning to Ireland when her ship burnt.

botanical painter, painted two watercolours of flowers now in the Customs House Museum, Goondiwindi, Queensland. They are inscribed verso: 'painted by Miss Fitzgerald in 1846, a cousin of great-grandmother Margaret Young of “Umbercothie” Goondiwindi…She was lost at sea when Barque “Cospatrick” burnt at sea and all lives lost. She was returning to Ireland’.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011