Reference: see Early Settler Artists of South Australia, 1836-1856. Introduction: ‘Trailblazers’, by Adam Dutkiewicz: ‘Mary Hindmarsh (1817–1887, arr. 1836) was
Governor Hindmarsh’s youngest daughter. She married George Milner Stephen
(1812–1894, arr. 1838), her
former drawing teacher (and the Colonial Secretary) in 1840, and later that year the couple left for England. In 1842 Stephen became secretary to John Hindmarsh
as governor of Heligoland, an island off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, and sketches made there by both
are now in the Mortlock Library. The couple had
thirteen children, so most of Mary’s artworks date before her marriage. In the 1847 Adelaide Exhibition of colonial artists & amateurs
she showed Ancona, and a collaboration with George, St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, which was well received by the South Australian Register , whose critic said: “were it not attributed to two amateurs, we should certainly have supposed [it] the work of some great master”. Between 1846 and 1887 the couple and their children lived in South Australia, Victoria, England, Heligoland and Sydney. Her sketches of the harbour in Rio de Janiero in the Mitchell Library are dated from 1838, but seem likely to have been painted-in sketches from her voyage to Australia in 1836
The artists of note and covered in some detail include: William Light, Samuel Thomas Gill, Frederick Robert Nixon, Edward Andrew Opie, John Bishop Hitchins, Mary Hindmarsh, George Milner Stephen, William Wyatt, Robert George Thomas, Frances Amelia Skipper, John Michael Skipper, Martha Berkeley, Theresa Walker, Robert Hall, George Hamilton, William Anderson Cawthorne, George Cole, and John Michael Crossland.
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