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Marsden, Ann, b. 1794
Female colonial painter and embroiderer who taught indigenous children literacy in her Sunday school at Parramatta, while exerting considerable influence on her father, the Reverend, ...
McCrae, Georgiana Huntly, b. 1804
A prolific painter. McCrae produced a variety of work throughout her life. She received much acclaim for her miniatures and portraits.
Macarthur, Emily, b. 1806
Female colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family who painted and sketched places where she lived and travelled, eventually establishing the Macarthur family home, Camden ...
Marsden, Mary Ellen, b. 1806
Female colonial poet, watercolourist and sketcher who posed for another painter in the act of painting flowers, although no floral still-lifes by her have been ...
Poynter, Sarah Westall, b. 1807
Sarah Westall Poynter (née Meredith) was a painter and sketcher. Leaving from London in 1820, she came to Van Diemen's Land with her father, step-mother ...
Stieglitz, Emma von, b. 1807
Painted mainly domestic scenes, von Stieglitz also painted portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal men and women. The latter were regarded as inferior because they were colonial ...
Thurston, Eliza, b. 1807
Despite having to raise a young family on her own in a country not of her birth, Eliza Thurston managed to become an established and ...
Bunn, Anna Maria, b. 1808
Her album documents her life at St. Omer, Braidwood, and includes competent watercolours of insects and flowers - generally English ones from her garden - ...
Errington, Eliza Helen, b. 1808
A painter and sketcher who lived in Tasmania where lithographer John Skinner Proust was regarded as a key influence on her work. She also spent ...
Hall, Rebecca Stokes, b. 1810
Sketcher, was married to the master mariner John Vine Hall. Views of Sydney and Bass Strait were made in 1840-41 when aboard her husband's ship.
McComb, Frances Louisa, b. 1811
A sketcher who brought with her favourite views of Ireland and watercolours of its native birds and flowers. No drawings done in Australia have been ...
Campbell, Sophia Ives, b. 1812
Sketcher and resident of Canberra, Sydney and England. Considered by her family to have been far more fond of riding than of sketching, she nevertheless ...
Mitchell, Catherine, b. 1812
Sketcher, came out from England to Tasmania in order to marry John Mitchell. Catherine Mitchell sketched her personal surroundings but never exhibited. There is some ...
Lowe, Georgiana, b. 1813
Sketcher and landscape gardener. The Mitchell Library's collection includes numerous views taken around Nelson Bay, many depicting Bronte and its gardens.
Badgery, Mary Ann, b. 1814
Marriage and nine sons meant that Mary Ann Badgery never realised her ambitions to establish herself as an art teacher however she painted and exhibited ...
Fisher, Elizabeth, b. 1815
As Elizabeth Morphett, her pictures of a rose and a convolvulus were exhibited at the 1859 South Australian Society of Arts exhibition. They are presumed ...
Vidal, Mary Therese, b. 1815
A miniature painter and sketcher whose works are held in the National Library of Australia, Vidal is better known as a novelist and is considered ...
Baxter, Annie Maria, b. 1816
Annie Maria Baxter was a prolific writer who kept meticulous diaries of her life in Australia. Her few surviving drawings are now held at the ...
Lyttleton, Maria, b. 1816
Nineteenth-century amateur watercolourist. She is known from her sketch of Mt Wellington from Brighton, later identified as Brooksby (Pontville, Tasmania).
Hindmarsh, Mary, b. 1817
Colonial watercolour and miniature painter who married her former drawing teacher, George Milner Stephen, in 1940. Hindmarsh exhibited two watercolour drawings on cotton at the ...