Amelia Solly b. 1811

Also known as Miss Solly
  • Artist (Painter)
Late 19th century Tasmanian artist, working in oils, watercolour and drawing. Sister to Benjamin Travers Solly.
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painter, was a sister of Benjamin Travers Solly , who said of her in a family paper written in 1856 that 'her chief talent is in drawing’. A number of her watercolour paintings are in the possession of descendants of her brother. Benjamin also referred to a sister 'evidencing considerable talent as an Artist in oils’ and an oil painting St Francis , lent by her brother to the Hobart Town Art-Treasures exhibitions of 1858 and 1862 as the work of Miss Solly, is attributed to Amelia though two other sisters also painted. Amelia died on 26 July 1906, aged ninety-five, and is buried in the Cornelian Bay Cemetery outside Hobart.

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1992
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