sketchers and teachers, advertised at Sydney in January 1834 that they wished to open 'a Ladies’ Establishment within two miles of the town '. Lately arrived from England, the de Metzes were proposing to teach 'the useful and ornamental branches of polite education … [including] Drawing in various styles, flower and Landscape Painting, Mezzo and Oriental Tinting’. Applications were to be addressed to Mrs de Metz, 105 Pitt Street.
The school in Cleveland House, Strawberry Hill, opened on 12 February 1834 and continued until 1843. There was evidently a large contingent of female de Metzes on call as teachers; Matilda, the sixth daughter of Andrew Louis de Metz of Cleveland House, Sydney, married M. Brown of George Street in August 1834. Isabella de Metz, another daughter possibly involved in the school, died in 1844, aged twenty-seven, at the family home which was by then at Newtown, the school and dairy (Mr de Metz had operated the Cleveland dairy with sixteen cows and a bull in the paddock behind) being sold up when de Metz was declared insolvent in November 1843.
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