Mrs S. MacGowan

Also known as Mrs S. McGowen
  • Artist (Painter)
Female colonial artist who painted Australian subject matter and exhibited in Melbourne. Although spelt 'McGowen' in the catalogue, the artist seems to have been the wife of Samuel Walker McGowan, superintendent of the Electric Telegraph.
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painter, contributed Tower-Hill, near Port Fairy to the 1864 Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Charles Summers’s Melbourne studio. The Argus of 2 March 1864 stated that this deserved 'a special word of praise. It is a thoroughly Australian scene, and though its colouring is somewhat blue and hard, it is painted with conscientious care’. Although spelt 'McGowen’ in the catalogue, the artist seems to have been the wife of Samuel Walker McGowan, superintendent of the Electric Telegraph. They lived in Flinders Lane West, Melbourne, in 1864.

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1992
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