Elizabeth Shaw b. 1794

Also known as Eliza Shaw
  • Artist (Painter)
Elizabeth (Eliza) Shaw was a botanical painter and writer as well as an excellent pianist and needlewoman. She arrived with her family in Western Australia in February 1830. Tragically, her two eldest sons drowned in November of the same year.

Citations

  • Bassett, M. (November 1949), 'Eliza Shaw and the Perth ball’, Historical Studies, .

  • Durack, M. (1976), 'To Be Heirs Forever’, London, England.

  • Erickson, R. (1988), 'The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829 1888’, Nedlands, Western Australia.

  • Henn, Canon, 'Notes on the Shaw family’, Battye Library of Australian History, State Library of Western Australia, Perth.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870