Penelope Smith

Also known as Penelope Whistler
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Colonial artist with reputed connections to later painter James McNeil Whistler. She was an avid sketcher of Glenrock, her home and one of the first houses to be built in Darling Point, NSW as well as surrounding landscapes in Sydney and Illawarra regions.
Name
Penelope Smith
Also known as Penelope Whistler
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Death date
11 December 1866
Death place
Plymouth, Devon, UK
Active Period
  • c.1840 - c.1848
Arrival
  • November 1830 (Sydney, NSW.)
Residence
  • 1830 - 1859 Glenrock, Darling Point, NSW
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870