Eliza Anne Pitcairn

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Eliza Anne Pitcairn was an art student. Her father was Robert Pitcairn, a Hobart Town solicitor. In 1852 Pitcairn was taught to draw Tasmanian flowers by Mary Morton Allport.
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art student, was the only daughter of Robert Pitcairn, a Hobart Town solicitor, and Dorothea Jessy, n ée Dumas . They lived at Runnymede, New Town near Hobart. As a family friend, the young Eliza was taught to draw Tasmanian flowers by Mary Morton Allport , who records helping Eliza Pitcairn with her painting in November-December 1852. At this time Eliza was painting a chessboard with a native flower in each of the squares, in imitation of one Mrs Allport was making, but progress was slow. No further painting activity is recorded after she married F.J. Cockburn.

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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