The youngest of merchant and settler John Blaxland's 11 children, Mary Ellen Blaxland and her sisters were all encouraged to sketch by their mother and ...
Miss Bligh exhibited one of her natural history paintings at the Victorian Academy of Art in 1877 where it received favourable comment from the critic ...
Despite being a competent natural history painter, Bligh's artistic activity has been completely overshadowed by several unfortunate controversies including the mutiny of his crew on ...