Mrs Hitchins

Also known as Sophia Hitchins
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and art teacher, was married to Fortescue Hitchins. By 1859 Mr and Mrs Hitchins were holding art classes at Maitland, NSW.
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painter and art teacher, was married to Fortescue Hitchins . As a resident of Collingwood, Melbourne, she showed eight paintings, including Brisk Gale , Carrier Pigeon , Magdalene and Susanna , with the Victorian Fine Arts Society in 1853. By 1859 Mr and Mrs Hitchins were holding art classes at Maitland, New South Wales. In the Industrial Exhibition held at the School of Arts in 1861 Mrs Hitchins’s pupils exhibited what the Maitland Ensign called 'very pretty pencil sketches’ and there were 'some small oil-paintings by the above-named lady, who, it appears, was for nine years a student of the National Gallery in England’.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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Related stub person groups
  • Victorian Fine Arts Society, Melbourne, Vic. (associate of)
Related people
  • Hitchins, Fortescue (spouse of)
Related works
  • Susanna (creator of)
  • Magdalene (creator of)
  • Carrier Pigeon (creator of)
  • Brisk Gale (creator of)
Related events
  • First Industrial Exhibition (exhibited at)