Julia Cowie

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Sketcher and watercolourist. Resident of Victoria, NSW and Tasmania. Cowie painted Regency-style specimens of wildflowers, some of which were showsn in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition.
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sketcher and watercolourist, was a niece of Emma von Stieglitz and a sister of Emily Bowring . She drew Brookstead, the Original Home of Robert Cowie on the St. Pauls River near Avoca, Tasmania in 1855 and sketched other buildings as well as plants during the late 1840s and 1850s, in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. The watercolours of wildflowers she contributed to her sister’s album are precise Regency-style specimens; the Sydney examples are dated August-October 1855.

In 1862 Cowie became the first secretary of the Free and Industrial School Association, Launceston, but later she moved to Melbourne. Some of her watercolour drawings of native flowers were shown in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, at which time she was living at 9 Royal Terrace, Nicholson Street, Fitzroy.

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1992
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2011

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Related person groups
  • Free and Industrial School Association, Launceston, Tas. (associate of)
  • Free and Industrial School Association, Launceston, Tas. (associate of)
Related works
  • Brookstead, the Original Home of Robert Cowie on the St. Pauls River near Avoca, Tasmania (creator of)
  • Brookstead, the Original Home of Robert Cowie on the St. Pauls River near Avoca, Tasmania (creator of)
Related collections
  • Private collections (collected in)
  • Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tas. (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Private collections (collected in)
  • Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tas. (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related events
  • Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition (None)
  • Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition (None)
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