Eliza Ball Hughes
1800s English-American artist and art teacher
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Amelia Peabody
Boston sculptor and philanthropist
Elsie Driggs
Elsie Driggs (1898-1992) was the only woman artist who participated in the Precisionist movement in American art.
Helen Storrow
Helen Storrow (1865-1944) funded the Saturday Evening Girls at Boston’s North Bennet Street Industrial School, where young working-class Italian and Jewish immigrant girls were taught literacy skills, pottery, and other crafts in a culturally rich program.
Ola Cohn
Australian sculptor and philanthropist Ola Cohn left a lasting impression on Victoria’s art world.
Fanny Macleay
Fanny Macleay was an 1800s collector and illustrator of botanical and entomological specimens in Australia.
Fanny Elizabeth De Mole
Fanny Elizabeth De Mole was a British born botanical artist who illustrated and published the first book about South Australian flora, Wildflowers of South Australia(1861), having hand-coloured the lithographic illustrations in each copy.
Chronology
1856
Life event – Family emigrated to Australia from London, England.
1861
Career event – Published Wildflowers of South Australia
Bea Orpen
1900s Irish painter and art teacher
Elizabeth Gould
1800s natural history illustrator
Harriet Scott
Natural history illustrator whose paintings earned high praise from the Entomological Society and she was elected, like her sister Helena, as an honorary member.