Mrs E. Barton

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Mrs Green lived in South Australia and seemed to be active in her church's guild. She was a talented embroiderer whose known work is a religious depiction of St Francis.
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embroiderer, made the embroidered panel St Francis preaching to the Australian Birds illustrated in A Book of South Australia: Women in the First 100 Years . The figure of St Francis was based on a painting by a Belgian artist and the tree was a copy of the naive tree in Giotto’s St Francis of Assisi fresco, while the birds at the saint’s feet are Australian. Mrs E. Barton was a member of the St Paul’s Guild, founded by Mrs Baker of Morialta in 1879 but afterwards run under the tutelage of Mrs Green , wife of Canon Green, rector of St Paul’s, Port Adelaide from 1881.

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011

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