Agnes Barbara Henty

Also known as Agnes Henty, Agnes Barbara Reed
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher, she seems to have arrived in Melbourne c 1861. Her two known drawings are thought to be copies.
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sketcher, was a daughter of Rev. Edward Reed MA of Hanover Square, London. In London on 30 April 1861, she married the Victorian grazier Richmond Henty, nephew of James Henty. The couple had one son, Ernest, born in Kew, Melbourne, in 1862. Agnes Henty was awarded an honourable mention for two pen-and-ink drawings she showed at the 1861 Victorian Exhibition: The Light of the Harem and Let Him that is without Sin Cast the First Stone – evidently both copies.

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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