Marion Louisa Anne Ebsworth b. 1833 Port Stephens, NSW

Also known as:
  • Marion Ebsworth
  • Mary L. A. Ebsworth
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Marion Ebsworth made landscape sketches of the north coast region of New South Wales. She exhibited with the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1877.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Marion Louisa Anne Ebsworth
Also known as:
  • Marion Ebsworth
  • Mary L. A. Ebsworth
Birth date
1833
Birth place
Port Stephens, NSW
Death date
11 July 1911
Death place
Alverton, Hunters Hill, Sydney, NSW
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Residence
  • Port Stephens, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1846- c.1877
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

sketcher, was born in Port Stephens, New South Wales, only daughter of James Edward Ebsworth, accountant and assistant commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company, and Anne, née Coryndon. Her father worked for the company at Port Stephens in various capacities from 1828 to 1851 and Marion sketched several views of its properties (Mitchell Library): Booral House on AA Comp Estate, Stroud Port Stephens where Prof. Huxley Stayed between Years 1846 and 1849 (pencil), Booral Estate, Booral House on Hill (pencil) and The Peach Trees, near Stroud, Port Stephens (1868, monotone watercolours). Other known sketches (ML) include a pen-and-ink Distant view of Parramatta (c.1848) and Near Boolaydeelah (now Bulahdelah, on the north coast of New South Wales), a monotone watercolour of about 1846.

When Miss Ebsworth exhibited a copy of a river scene with the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1877, it was called 'good and promising work’ although she was then aged about forty-four. She died, unmarried, on 11 July 1911 at Alverton, Hunter’s Hill, Sydney.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
relative of
W. A. E.
Artist (Painter)
possible attribution
child of
James Edward Ebsworth
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
née Coryndon Anne Ebsworth
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
W. A. E.
Artist (Painter)
associate of
New South Wales Academy of Art, Sydney, NSW
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Booral House on AA Comp Estate, Stroud Port Stephens where Prof. Huxley Stayed between Years 1846 and 1849
Booral Estate, Booral House on Hill
The Peach Trees, near Stroud, Port Stephens
Date
1868
Distant view of Parramatta
Date
1848
Near Boolaydeelah
Date
1846
Collections
1877
Exhibition (exhibited at)
New South Wales Academy of Art, Sydney, NSW
Citations:
  • NSW Death Records : 10479/1911
  • NSW Birth Records : V18331265 20/1833
  • Mowle, L.M., (1978), A Genealogical History of Pioneer Families of Australia, (Place: Adelaide, SA)