Ann Webb

Also known as Ann Fisher
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Ann Webb was a sketcher. She married Robert Saunders Webb, the first commissioner of customs and treasurer for the Port Phillip District of NSW, now Victoria. Their daughter is said to have been the first European girl born in Melbourne.
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sketcher, was the wife of Robert Saunders Webb, the first commissioner of customs and treasurer for the Port Phillip District of NSW (now Victoria). They arrived at Melbourne from Sydney in September 1836 and settled in Newtown (now Fitzroy); their daughter Ann, born in December 1836, is said to have been the first European girl born in Melbourne. One of Mrs Webb’s sketchbooks survives in the possession of descendants, showing her to have been a talented sketcher. Her son, the eminent Victorian lawyer Thomas Prout Webb (1845-1916), was also a keen watercolour painter.

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1992
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2011

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