Marion Louisa Holmes
A leading charity worker and artist in Western Australia from the 1890s to the 1910s
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Anne Killigrew
English artist and poetess
Rosalba Carriera
Italian miniature and portrait painter
Maria Bashkirtseff
Russian artist and writer
Dora d’Istria
Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer
Fanny Osborne
From both scientific and artistic points of view, Fanny Osborne’s paintings of the flowers of the indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbs of Great Barrier are exceptional and superbly crafted examples of botanical illustration. They
Martha King
Martha King was New Zealand’s first resident botanical artist.
Grace Ellen Butler
Butler was well known for her many paintings of the landscape around Ōtira
Edith Stanway Halcombe
Edith Halcombe was versatile and capable in the frontier environment, and her promotion of Jersey cattle contributed to the success of New Zealand’s dairy industry. Professional tuition gave her the ability to make a competent record of the changing landscapes in which she lived. Her paintings and drawings are held in public collections in New Zealand and Australia.
Margaret Olrog Stoddart
New Zealand’s foremost flower painter of her time, Margaret Olrog Stoddart travelled and exhibited her work internationally.