painter and teacher, had two watercolour groups of 'Flowers from Nature’ in the 1857 Victorian Society of Fine Arts Exhibition and some crayon 'Studies of Heads’ in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition. She was listed in the Melbourne Directory for 1869 as a professor of painting and drawing at 159 Collins Street East. In November 1867, when described as 'a lady residing at Richmond’, Kennedy executed at least two transparencies as street decorations for the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Melbourne. One, 'a very neat miniature transparency of the Galatea encircled by a rose wreath, supported on either side by Neptune and Amphitrite’, was judged 'elegantly and tastefully coloured’. It was displayed on Walton Brothers, chemists, in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. The other, a series of seven 9 × 6 foot (274 × 182 cm) transparencies to hang from Dr Tracy’s balcony in Collins Street, comprised:
In the centre, a large figure of Britannia holding her spear and shield. On one side a transparency of Windsor Castle and on the other Edinburgh Castle, with the grass market and other portions of the city beneath. On either side of these were two transparencies, one representing the arms of the Duke of Edinburgh, the other those of the colony.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
