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.
Australian sculptor and philanthropist Ola Cohn left a lasting impression on Victoria’s art world.
Fanny Macleay was an 1800s collector and illustrator of botanical and entomological specimens in Australia.
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
1900s Irish painter and art teacher
1800s natural history illustrator
Natural history illustrator whose paintings earned high praise from the Entomological Society and she was elected, like her sister Helena, as an honorary member.
Irish artist Eliza Kirk trained as a sculptor with her father, and is known mainly for miniature portrait busts. She exhibited regularly at the RHA between 1839 and 1859, and her ‘Infant Bacchus’ was included in the National Exhibition in Dublin in 1853.
Irish painter
1700s Irish artist