Miss Palmer b. 1831 Langdon Hills, Essex, England, UK, Langdon Hill, Essex, England, UK

  • Artist (Painter)
Although untrained, Palmer's hand has created little glimpses into rural Tasmanian life in the nineteenth century we would not otherwise have had.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Miss Palmer
Birth date
1831
Birth place
Langdon Hills, Essex, England, UK, Langdon Hill, Essex, England, UK
Birth note
Langdon Hill, Essex, England, UK
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1833 Hobart, TAS
Arrival
  • 1833 (Arrived on the Warrior at Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land on 26 June.)
Active Period
  • c.1835
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

painter, elder daughter of the Rev. Philip Palmer (1799-1853), curate at Langdon Hill, Essex, and Harriet née Owen, came to Van Diemen’s Land with her parents and sister on board the Warrior , arriving at Hobart Town on 26 June 1833. She painted a large oil portrait of her father when he was rural dean of Van Diemen’s Land and an oil view of Trinity Parsonage in Davenport Street, Hobart. The member of the Palmer family who donated these to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 1965 said they were painted when Miss Palmer was living at the parsonage. The architectural drawing is naive and although the portrait is more sophisticated it seems to have been painted over a photographic base.

This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.

Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
child of
Reverend Philip Palmer
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
née Owen Harriet Palmer
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Trinity Parsonage
Collections
Citations:
  • Hart, P.R., (c.1967), 'Philip Palmer', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, (Place: Melbourne)