Ann Chappelle Flinders b. 1772

  • Artist (Painter)
The wife of explorer Matthew Flinders, she was blind in one eye from smallpox lancing but had an aptitude for painting flowers from nature. Most of her married life was spent without her seafaring husband and she outlived him by almost forty years.
Name
Ann Chappelle Flinders
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Birth date
1772
Birth place
Lincolnshire, England, UK
Death date
1853
Arrival
  • c.1801
Residence
  • c.1772- Partney, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Languages
  • English