Rose Elizabeth Selwyn b.

Also known as Rose Elizabeth Rusden, E. R. R., R. E. R.
  • Artist (Painter)
Selwyn was a daughter, sister and wife to Reverends, her watercolours were for friends and family not public exhibition. Her mother-in-law was not appreciative of the portrait of her son, her husband suggesting she do another 'to show that the nose is not a creature of the imagination'.
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Name
Rose Elizabeth Selwyn
Also known as:
  • Rose Elizabeth Rusden
  • E. R. R.
  • R. E. R.
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Birth date
Birth place
Leith Hill Place, Dorking, Surrey, England, UK, Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
Death date
1905
Death place
Woollahra, Sydney, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1852 - c.1905
Arrival
  • 1834
Residence
  • c.1867 Newcastle, NSW
  • c.1854 - c.1867 Clarence River [district], NSW
  • c.1834 - c.1854 Maitland, NSW
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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References [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 11204/1905'.>, <ExternalResource: Selwyn, Dean (1902), 'Letters of the Late Dean Selwyn (of Newcastle) Chiefly to his Wife'.>, <ExternalResource: Blainey, A.; & Lazarus, M. (1976), 'George William Rusden', Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, [Nairn, B. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.>, <ExternalResource: Davis, R. (1976), 'Arthur Edward Selwyn', Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, [Nairn, B. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.>, <ExternalResource: (1985), ''The most useful art': Architecture in Australia 1788-1985', Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, (catalogue).>, <ExternalResource: (18 March 1967), Newcastle Morning Herald.>, <ExternalResource: Rusden, Anne (Mrs); to Rose [Selwyn (Mrs)], 'Letterbook 1854-55', Sydney, NSW : Rusden Family Papers, in Scott Papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (manuscript).>] [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 11204/1905'.>, <ExternalResource: Selwyn, Dean (1902), 'Letters of the Late Dean Selwyn (of Newcastle) Chiefly to his Wife'.>]