flower painter, was acquainted with the painter Samuel Elyard when both were living in Sydney in the late 1830s. Having examined specimens in an album 'Miss Kirk’ had lent him in order to obtain a contribution, Elyard noted in his journal on 10 February 1837 that 'she paints flowers beautifully’. As well as adding a sketch, Elyard copied 'whatsoe’er thy berth, thou wert a beautiful thought’ into her book. He also recorded in his diary that he was painting Miss Kirk’s portrait for her mother for 6 guineas as she was about to leave on a trip to England. In 1846 Sarah Ann Kirk became the second wife of Nelson Simmons Lawson, third son of the explorer and settler William Lawson and Sarah, née Leadbeater. Nelson Simmons Lawson died on 3 February 1849 at their home, Greystanes, Prospect, NSW. Sarah Ann Kirk and her second husband, Jeriamiah Frederick Downes, lived at Brownlow Hill in the Camden area, where Sarah Ann died in June 1882. No surviving drawings have been located.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
