Miss Rennie b.

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Miss Rennie arrived in Sydney in 1840. She opened a day school for young ladies and taught music, drawing, ornamental work, and languages. Students also enjoyed excursions to gardens and fields to learn botany and 'draw from nature'.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 8912/1911’.

  • Gibbney, H.J. & Smith, A.G. (1987), 'A Biographical Register 1788 1939’, Canberra, ACT.

  • (9 December 1841), Colonial Observer, (Sydney, NSW).

  • Information sourced from Callaway, A.

Initial data sources

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