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Stone, Sarah, b. 1760
Sarah Stone worked as a painter and natural history illustrator in England between 1777 and 1820, and although she never visited the Pacific region she ...
Flinders, Ann Chappelle, b. 1772
The wife of explorer Matthew Flinders, she was blind in one eye from smallpox lancing but had an aptitude for painting flowers from nature. Most ...
Macquarie, Elizabeth Henrietta, b. 1778
Colonial first lady: female designer of gardens and architecture whose paintings and sketches influenced major works in the fledgling colony of New South Wales. She ...
Knip, Pauline, b. 1781
A natural history artist, born in Paris 1781. She specialised in painting birds and illustrated many ornithological publications. While she never visited Australia her books ...
Wilson, Martha, b. 1790
Martha Wilson was a watercolour painter. Together with her husband and children she left London in 1838 bound for South Australia. Before their wooden house ...
Bailey, Mary, b. 1792
Watercolourist active in colonial Hobart in the 1850s. Mary Bailey's watercolour 'View from Sandy Bay' is held by the National Library of Australia.
Lette, Elizabeth, b. 1792
Portrait painter, was reported in both Launceston and Hobart Town newspapers in 1848 as a portrait painter of some ability. She spoke of becoming a ...
Macleay, Frances Leonora, b. 1793
Philanthropic colonial female painter whose detailed watercolours of flower arrangements included European and Australian flora. Her art was influenced by a lifelong association wih scientific ...
Currie, Jane Eliza, b. 1794
Miniature and watercolour painter, born in England, UK. Resident of Western Australia she painted some of earliest known views taken in the area.
Marsden, Ann, b. 1794
Female colonial painter and embroiderer who taught indigenous children literacy in her Sunday school at Parramatta, while exerting considerable influence on her father, the Reverend, ...
Shaw, Elizabeth, b. 1794
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 ...
Bowman, Mary, b. 1796
Painter Mary Bowman is best known for the silk flag she painted in 1806 to celebrate Nelson's victory at Trafalgar. Now held in the Mitchell ...
Darling, Elizabeth, b. 1798
Wife of the Governor New South Wales 1825/1831 Major-General Ralph Darling. She made watercolours and drawings as well as designs for public buildings.
Dubost, , b. 1799
Sydney based Mademoiselle Dubost operated a school for young ladies and offered private art tuition.
Nayler, Maria Elizabeth, b. 1802
A painter,lithographer and art teacher. During her career she produced portraits, miniatures, copies of Old Masters, lithographs and bird and still life portraits.
Nixon, Anna Maria, b. 1802
A watercolourist and sketcher who constantly sketched everywhere she went sending her works back to her family and friends as a form of correspondence.
Gould, Elizabeth, b. 1804
After she asked who would draw the plates on stone, her husband answered 'Why, you, of course!' Thus began a large series of hand-coloured lithographs ...
McCrae, Georgiana Huntly, b. 1804
A prolific painter. McCrae produced a variety of work throughout her life. She received much acclaim for her miniatures and portraits.
Prinsep, Elizabeth Acworth, b. 1804
Elizabeth Acworth Prinsep is best known for editing her husband's letters into Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land, published in 1833. ...
Paty, Dorothy English, b. 1805
Natural history painter and resident of Newcastle, NSW, Dorothy English Paty was an observer and recorder of plants native to the area. Her works are ...