flower painter, won a 3-guinea prize for the best watercolour painting of flowers or fruit at the 1865 exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts. The following year she sent 'a very pretty watercolour drawing of fruit and flowers … which takes another of the Society’s prizes’, although the South Australian Advertiser commented that the unity of this picture was flawed through the introduction of fruits and flowers of different seasons (grapes and narcissus side by side).
At the 1867 exhibition Mrs Mack’s group, 'though it contains but three flowers’, was thought very nicely coloured and considered superior to Harriet De Mole 's floral group which had received the fifteenth prize, despite the fact that Mrs Mack had been awarded only the seventeenth prize ('for the next best Watercolour Painting, Fruit or Flowers, or both, by Ladies, original or copy’). At this exhibition Mrs Mack also won prizes 'for the best crayon drawing in black and white, from the Round, by Amateurs’ (2 guineas) and, in the open section, for the best watercolour painting of fruit or flowers (2 guineas).
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
