Mary Ann Armstrong (1838-1910) was a botanical fern artist who participated in a number of international and intercolonial exhibitions. She compiled and artistically arranged fern ...
19th century English painter, illustrator, engraver and feminist. Lived briefly Sydney in the 1850s and occasionally used Australian themes in her English newspaper illustrations. She ...
Sydney-born female artist who used watercolour, pencil and ink to depict a variety of subjects in her work from landscapes, houses, plant studies and even ...
Eliza Broadhurst was born in 1839. She was an embroiderer. Broadhurst's grandfather was the Earl of Inchiquin. Christening gown dating from around 1860s made by ...
A 'lady of great culture', a prominent figure and a 'grande dame', Lady Darley developed a talent for 'spirit drawing'. Working intuitively she developed psychic ...
A sketcher and diarist, Lucy Gray lived in North Queensland after her marriage and kept an illustrated journal (1868-1872). She obviously intended it to be ...
Quilter and embroiderer, Hannaford began making quilts in 1920, when she was 80 years old. There are seven known quilts initialled 'M.J.H.', all found in ...
Well-trained colonial artist of the famous Macarthur Family who drew and painted landscapes and interiors throughout her life in Australia and London. She also improved ...
Eliza Younghusband (c.1840-?), album compiler, was active in Adelaide, SA, in the 1850s and 60s. Her album is in the collection of the National Library ...
An accomplished painter and craftworker, Emily Paterson's watercolours of native Australian birds and flowers were exhibited extensively with the NSW Academy of Art. Paterson, the ...
Mary Richardson exhibited two watercolours 'Groups of Flowers' at the 1869 Melbourne Public Library Exhibition. The artist was most probably Mary Ann Richardson or possibly ...