Miss Margaret Discombe Martin b. c.1 January 1826

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Female colonial headmistress in Sydney who painted and exhibited oil and watercolour landscapes and copied works by other artists.
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landscape painter and teacher, was headmistress of the girls’ school Rosebank in Darlinghurst, Sydney and a pupil of Conrad Martens . Two Sydney views (Mitchell Library) attributed to her – Christ Church, Sydney (1858) and South Head (c.1858) – were perhaps done as his student. Miss Martin exhibited as an amateur from an address in Macquarie Street in the watercolour section of the 1870 Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition, showing From Darling Point (after Martens) , Balmain (after Martens) , North Head (after Martens) , The Gap (after Terry [ F.C. Terry ]) , On Wollongong Road (after Terry) , Copy from Lithograph, by Harding and three original watercolours from nature: From Milson’s Point, North Shore , Falls, Mossman’s Bay and Island Scenery . She regularly exhibited as an amateur with the NSW Academy of Art, her New England views being much admired in 1872. Other paintings exhibited with the academy were: Fernhill, near Mulgoa (Residence of E.K. Cox, Esq.) (oil, shown 1874) and Manly Beach Harbour, from the South (waterccolour, shown 1876).

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1992
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  • 1853 (Arrived with family on the Barque Velore from Bristol to Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria. Source: Newspaper reports/correspondence from father James Martin en route; 1853-54 Pilotage report, Victoria. Was living in Sydney by July 1853 when father was employed at Central Police Office.)
  • 1853 (Arrived with family on the Barque Velore from Bristol to Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria. Source: Correspondence from father James Martin en route; 1853054 Pilotage report, Victoria. Unknown at what point family moved from Victoria to Sydney but were in Sydney by 1853.)