Helena Scott b. 11 April 1832

Also known as Mrs Edward Forde, Nellie Scott, Helena Forde
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Like her elder sister Harriet, Helena was a professional artist and natural science collector and illustrator. She was an accomplished natural history artist and both she and her sister received commissions from the leading colonial and international natural scientists of the day to illustrate their work.
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painter, illustrator, lithographer and natural history collector, was born in Sydney on 11 April 1832, to Harriet Calcott and Alexander Walker Scott and her cousins included the reformer Rose Scott and David Scott Mitchell, founder of the Mitchell Library.

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Date written:
1992
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1989

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Related stub people
  • Calcott, Harriet (child of)
  • Scott, Alexander Walker (child of)
  • Scott, Helenus (Dr) (grandchild of)
  • Ramsay, Edward Pearson (associate of)
  • Woolls, William (associate of)
  • Mueller, Baron Von (associate of)
  • Mort, Thomas S. (associate of)
  • Macleay, George (Sir) (associate of)
  • Fletcher, J. J. (associate of)
  • Mitchell, David Scott (relative of)
  • Scott, Rose (relative of)
Related stub person groups
  • Linnaean Society (associate of)
  • Entomological Society (associate of)
Related people
  • Scott, Harriet (sibling of)
  • Selleny, Joseph (associate of)
  • Mason, Walter (associate of)
  • Forde, Edward (spouse of)
  • North, Marianne (associate of)
  • Macleay, Frances Leonora (associate of)
  • Macarthur, William (associate of)
Related works
  • Ceratopetalum gummiferum (creator of)
  • Flora of the Darling (creator of)
  • Clematis: from the Deanery, Goulburn, (creator of)
  • Portrait of Walter Russell Hall, Sportsman (creator of)
  • Our First Camp at Blanche Town (creator of)
  • The Spit Opposite Clontarf, Middle Harbour (creator of)
  • Sirius Cove (creator of)
  • Elizabeth Bay House (creator of)
Related collections
  • Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • 4th place in competition by John Sands & Co. (received)