sketcher, was one of at least eight children of Thomas James Crouch, a prominent Wesleyan temperance advocate, and his Quaker convert wife Sarah, née Rothwell, who had been a governess before her marriage in 1832. One of Annie’s brothers, Thomas James Crouch (1833 89), became a partner in the well-known Melbourne architectural firm of Crouch & Wilson . Her parents’ portraits were sketched in 1848 by J. Harrison , who may have given Annie drawing lessons.
Annie Crouch drew crude pencil and watercolour views of Hobart Town in the early 1860s: a watercolour view of a somewhat precipitously located town (1863) and an undated pencil sketch of Thims Cottage, the Residence of T.J. Crouch Esq. from Burnett Street (both Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) are examples. The family’s impressive two-storey Gothic Revival home appears in the distance in the latter, while the distinctly unpicturesque foreground features yard, fence and goat. A 'crayon’ (pastel?) drawing The Ferry was sent to the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition by her mother. Annie Crouch married R.W.G. Shoobridge in 1871.
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