Mrs Wight

  • Artist (Painter)
Mrs Wight was a painter without arms or legs, she used her mouth to paint and her shoulder as a guide. Her watercolour 'Portrait of a Lady' was lent to the 1863 Ballarat Mechanics Institute Exhibition.

painter, described as 'a woman without arms or legs, who used her mouth, guiding the pencil with her shoulder’, painted a watercolour Portrait of a Lady which was lent to the Ballarat Mechanics Institute Exhibition in 1863 by Mrs A. Turner. The artist may not have been colonial.

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