Matilda Heming
| Matilda Heming | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Matilda Lowry 1796 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 1855 |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for |
Watercolor Landscape art |
Backwater, Weymouth, Dorset
Matilda Heming, née Lowry (1796 – 1855) was a British watercolour painter.
Biography
Heming was born in London, England. She was the daughter of Wilson Lowry. The engraver Joseph Wilson Lowry was her younger half-brother. She is known for watercolour portraits, but her landscape painting Backwater, Weymouth, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[1] Today it is in the collection of the British Museum, along with a feww more landscapes and a portrait she made of the writer Mary Somerville.[2]
References
- ↑ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
- ↑ Matilda Heming in the British Museum
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