Miss Henrietta M. Pilkington

  • Artist (Painter)
Henrietta M. Pilkington was a painter. In 1869 she exhibited at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute.
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painter, exhibited two oil paintings at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute in 1869: a copy of Reynolds’s Innocence (for sale) and Don Quixote Studying . The introduction to the catalogue for the 1875 Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition Preparatory to the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition stated that Miss Pilkington and the Misses Livingstone were 'the best copyists that we have [in Victoria]’. The artist was possibly Henrietta M. Pilkington, known only by two undated oil landscape paintings of Victorian scenes – Merri Creek and Botanical Gardens [Melbourne] – dated by the La Trobe Library to about 1863.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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