Dorothy Benny

Also known as née Wulsten Marie Hedwig Dorothea Bunny (Unconfirmed attribution)
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Dorothy Benny was an embroiderer whose only known work dates from 1899. There is some speculation she may be the mother of acclaimed painter Rupert Bunny, the first Australian to receive an honourable mention at the Old Salon in Paris.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Dorothy Benny
Also known as née Wulsten Marie Hedwig Dorothea Bunny (Unconfirmed attribution)
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Active Period
  • c.1899
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

embroiderer, made Summer 1899, exhibited Deutscher Fine Art 24 November-9 December 1988, cat. 22. There is some speculation that Benny might be Marie Hedwig Dorothea Bunny, mother of painter Rupert Bunny.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Rupert Bunny
1864
Artist
parent of
Rupert Bunny
1864
Artist
Unconfirmed attribution
Summer
Date
1899
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