Lucia Elizabeth Abell b. 1802

Also known as Betsy Balcombe, Betsy Abell
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher, landowner and adventurer, Abell lived in London, St Helena and on the banks of the Molonglo River, New South Wales. Apart from her landscape sketching, she is known for her book of memoirs on Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Citations

  • Thomson,K. (1966), 'Alexander Beatson Balcombe’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1962), 'Betsy Balcombe, Correspondence’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, ms 1468/1962.

  • Abell, Betsy (1844), 'Recollections of Emperor Napoleon’, England, UK.

Initial data sources

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

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