portrait painter, was reported in both Launceston and Hobart Town newspapers in 1848 as a portrait painter of some ability. She was then exhibiting at her temporary residence, 60 Macquarie Street, Hobart Town, an oil portrait of Miss Pitt, the harbour-master’s young daughter. Mrs Lette was proposing 'adopting painting as a profession’ and this was her first colonial effort. Despite the Britannia and Trades Advocate's urging – 'Our old British feelings teach us to love portraits; and the artist (especially a lady) who can bring parents, friends and children ever near to us, ought to receive liberal encouragement’ – Lette’s venture apparently did not succeed. No other works are known despite a long life in Tasmania, where she died, aged seventy-two, on 12 May 1864. Her own portrait was painted by Robert Dowling.
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