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Strawbridge, Eliza, b. 1818
Female colonial artist who conducted a school in her home and taught Edith Cook (later the prominent educationalist Edith Hubbe). Some of Eliza's finely detailed ...
Scott, Margaret Cochrane, b. 1825
Late colonial-era Adelaide painter and cartoonist. Most of her art work appears to have been small in scale with numerous flower studies painted on green ...
Kennedy, Christina, b. 1827
Christina Kennedy lived and worked in South Australia where she and her family were all involved in craft production. Her 'Tripod Table' (c.1880), made of ...
Presgrave, Catherine, b. 1829
Catherine Presgrave was known as an art teacher instructing students in 'Drawing, Landscape and Flower Painting'.
Cumming, Janet, b. 1832
Sketcher born in Glasgow, Scotland but later a resident of Adelaide. Scott's drawings were praised for their 'fanciful design and spirited execution'.
Norman, Harriet Anne, b. 1834
A photographer who worked in her father's photographic studio and watch and jewellery shops in Portland (1854) & Hamilton (1858-1867) in Victoria, and Commercial Street ...
King, Matilda, b. 1837
Described as 'One of the first ladies to paint South Australian native flowers' Tilly King was both a botanical painter and collector who had a ...
Younghusband, Eliza, b. 1840
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 ...
Morphett, Amy Gawler, b. 1841
Sketcher from South Australia. In 1859 her father lent her flower painting to the exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts.
Mack, Maggie Pinkie, b. 1858
Weaver, singer and historian, collaborated with Ron and Catherine Berndt in their work of recording the old ways of the Yaraldi in 'A World That ...
Ada,
Sketcher. As a young girl Miss Ada received a prize for her drawing of a head that was exhibited with the South Australian Society of ...
James, W.
Painter or sketcher, was listed as the artist of 'View on the Clyde' shown at the 1859 annual exhibition of the South Australian Society of ...
Martin, A.
Colonial female sketcher whose sketches of Pilgrim's Progress drew comment from an Adelaide newspaper.
Mayo, Ellen Anne
Female colonial sketcher and painter who recorded views of Sydney as she travelled to Adelaide. Afterwards she exhibited a painting of fruit.
Owen, K.
Colonial-era Adelaide art student, who won a prize for a crayon study in the 1859 exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts.