Rose Elizabeth Selwyn b.

Also known as Rose Elizabeth Rusden, E. R. R., R. E. R.
  • Artist (Painter)
Selwyn was a daughter, sister and wife to Reverends, her watercolours were for friends and family not public exhibition. Her mother-in-law was not appreciative of the portrait of her son, her husband suggesting she do another 'to show that the nose is not a creature of the imagination'.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 11204/1905’.

  • Selwyn, Dean (1902), 'Letters of the Late Dean Selwyn (of Newcastle) Chiefly to his Wife’.

  • Blainey, A.; & Lazarus, M. (1976), 'George William Rusden’, Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, [Nairn, B. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Davis, R. (1976), 'Arthur Edward Selwyn’, Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, [Nairn, B. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • (1985), ''The most useful art’: Architecture in Australia 1788-1985’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, (catalogue).

  • (18 March 1967), Newcastle Morning Herald.

  • Rusden, Anne (Mrs); to Rose [Selwyn (Mrs)], 'Letterbook 1854-55’, Sydney, NSW : Rusden Family Papers, in Scott Papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (manuscript).

Initial data sources

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

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