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Parry, Isabella Louisa, b. 1801
Isabella Louisa Parry was a sketcher and collector. She arrived in Sydney with her husband in 1829. It appears that Parry, in consultation with her ...
Paton, Harriet, b. 1828
Harriet Gordon Paton was a sketcher. An album filled with work dating from 1839 is attributed to her, despite the fact she would have been ...
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 ...
Piguenit, Mary Ann, b. 1808
Mary Ann Piguenit (née Igglesden) was a teacher who arrived in Hobart Town in 1832. Piguenit became the mother of the painters Harriet and William ...
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. ...
Putland, Mary, b. 1783
Putland's father Governor William Bligh described her work as 'some little fancy drawings.' He was not so condensing when, barely a fortnight after her husband's ...
R., A. E.
The only known work of this artist is a watercolour view of Helenus Scott's residence near Singleton, NSW. The artist seems likely to be either ...
Ring,
Miss Ring, art teacher, opened a school for young ladies at Clifton House, New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land, in March 1831. She claimed that she ...
Roberts, Jane
Jane Roberts was a talented sketcher and author. The second edition of her book 'Two Years at Sea: Being the Narrative of a Voyage to ...
Rusden, Amelia Christina
Although her work is held in the National Library of Australia, Rusden is still remembered for briefly catching the eye of Houston Mitchell. His words: ...
Scott, Lachlina Elizabeth, b. 1824
Art student, was the eldest daughter of James Scott, senior colonial surgeon of Van Diemen's Land between 1824 and 1835.
Scott, Maria, b. 1821
Painter, lithographer and novelist. She exhibited two watercolours and a pencil drawing in the 1854 Australian Museum Exhibition.
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 ...
Sherwin,
Miss Sherwin lived with her family near Bothwell until 1830 when the house was burned to the ground by Aborigines. In 1833 she advertised in ...
Skipper, Frances Amelia, b. 1815
Nineteenth-century painter and sketcher, apparently without formal training, mainly a portraitist.
Stieglitz, Emma von, b. 1807
Painted mainly domestic scenes, von Stieglitz also painted portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal men and women. The latter were regarded as inferior because they were colonial ...
Sylke, Ann, b. 1805
Colonial sketcher and governess, who apparently made many beautiful drawings in her time at Launceston, Van Diemen's Land. She was threatened with legal proceedings when ...
Taylor,
A teacher of many disciplines, Miss Taylor operated a school for young ladies on George Street, Sydney, from 1834 after arriving from England.
Thurston, Eliza, b. 1807
Despite having to raise a young family on her own in a country not of her birth, Eliza Thurston managed to become an established and ...
Tost, Jane, b. 1817
Taxidermist in partnership with her daughter Ada Jane Rohu. For over forty years (1860-1900) Jane Tost and Ada Jane Rohu were the most consistent and ...