Anna Maria Stonehouse

  • Artist (Painter) , (Draughtsman)
Anna Maria Stonehouse was a sketcher and painter who exhibited with the South Australian Society of Arts in 1862 and 1863. She was awarded prizes for a horse painting and a tree study in 1868 and 1869 respectively.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Anna Maria Stonehouse
Death date
1911
Death place
None
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Active Period
  • 1862- 1869
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

sketcher, was a daughter of Rev. George Stonehouse, a Baptist minister, and his wife, Harriet. She exhibited Scene in the Park Lands with the South Australian Society of Arts in 1862 and again (non-competitively) at the following year’s exhibition. In 1868 she was awarded a prize for her horse painting and the following year she won the 2-guinea prize for a study of a tree or trees by an amateur. On 10 May 1870 Anna Maria Stonehouse married the painter and art teacher Wilton Hack ; they had at least four children.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
spouse of
Wilton Hack
1843
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Wilton Hack
1843
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
child of
Rev George Stonehouse
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Harriet Stonehouse
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
sibling of
Emily Stonehouse
Artist (Painter)
associate of
[Royal] South Australian Society of Arts
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Scene in the Park Lands
South Australian Society of Arts exhibition
1863
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Adelaide, South Australia
South Australian Society of Arts exhibition
1862
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Adelaide, South Australia
Recognitions
South Australian Society of Arts
1869
Award
2-guinea prize for a study of a tree or trees by an amateur
South Australian Society of Arts
1868
Award
For a horse painting
Citations:
  • Statton, J., (1986), Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885, (Place: Adelaide, South Australia)
  • Hack, Wilton, (1972), Australian Dictionary of Biography, (Place: Melbourne, Victoria: vol 4, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria)