watercolourist and teacher, advertised her boarding-school, the Belle Vue House Academy for Young Ladies in Kent Street, Sydney, in the Sydney Morning Herald in June 1843, stating that she had been engaged for many years as a finishing governess with 'some of the first families of Great Britain’ and had excellent references from her employers, including Sir Lionel Smith, a former governor of Mauritius. Claiming that she had taught art for many years in both Britain and India, Miss Wardlow invited 'the ladies of Sydney’ to inspect her paintings and those by her current pupils. She was also offering private lessons in pianoforte, harp, guitar, and singing. In 1848 Mrs Wardlow advertised that she was now at Keera (sic) Vale House near Wollongong, the former mansion of Judge Roger Therry, again running a boarding seminary for young ladies. The variety of accomplishments now on offer included 'drawing and painting in water colours, landscapes, figures, fruit and flowers’.
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- Date written:
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