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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1992
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1989

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