Penelope Smith

Also known as Penelope Whistler
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Colonial artist with reputed connections to later painter James McNeil Whistler. She was an avid sketcher of Glenrock, her home and one of the first houses to be built in Darling Point, NSW as well as surrounding landscapes in Sydney and Illawarra regions.
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Citations

  • Parsons, V. (1967), 'Thomas Whistler Smith’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2 [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Pike, A. (1967), 'Henry Gilbert Smith’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2 [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Griffiths, N. (1949), 'Some Houses and People of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

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

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Related collections
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)