Louisa Clifton b. 1814

Also known as Mrs George Eliot
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, sketcher and diarist. Resident of Western Australia she recorded the first permanent house erected at Port Leschenault.
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Citations

  • Staples, A. (1969), 'Marshall Waller Clifton’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Chapman, B. (1979), 'The Colonial Eye’, Perth, WA : Art Gallery of Western Australia catalogue.

  • Erickson, R. (1988), 'The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888’, Nedlands, WA.

  • Frost, L. (1984), 'No Place for a Nervous Lady’, Fitzroy, Vic.

  • Moore, W. (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson, (facsimile reprint 1980), 2 volumes.

  • Sanders, T. (1975), 'Bunbury’, Canberra, ACT.

  • (1928), 'Early Days’, Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, Volume 1, Number 3.

  • Clifton, L., 'Diary’, Perth, WA : Battye Library of Australian History, State Library of Western Australia, (1840/1841), manuscript.

  • (1932), Perth, WA : Western Mail.

See also

  • 'View of Mr Greensill's Bush Cottage (detail), c.1841, pencil and watercolour, 27x20cm, Private Collection.'.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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  • Private Collections. (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Royal Western Australian Historical Society, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Royal Western Australian Historical Society, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Battye Library of Australian History, State Library of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Private Collections. (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Royal Western Australian Historical Society, Perth, WA (collected in)
Related events
  • The Colonial Eye (exhibited at)