Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Wedderburn Jemina ° J. W. ; maiden name Jemima Wedderburn; married name ->Jemima Blackburn or Mrs. Hugh Blackburn (DSI entry 1058) Hugh Blackburn (1823-1909), who held the Chair of Mathematics at the Univ. of Glasgow one daughter and three sons 1823 in Heriot Row, Edinburgh 1909 Scotland James Wedderburn, a Solicitor-General for Scotland (he died before J.W. was born) her mother was aunt of mathematician & physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79); www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?p Scotland, UK see www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I20482&ged=auden-bicknell.ged ; www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I20482&ged=auden-bicknell.ged ; ornithological and genre drawing and engraving ; landscape, wildlife, family, and portrait watercolour painting ; www.artnet.de/K%C3%BCnstler/jemima%20wedderburn-blackburn/auktionsresultate ; Cf. www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst2374.html : described as "the best artist I know" by John Ruskin (1819-1900) ; AKL11 1995:318; wiki; CE Jackson: Dict. Bird Artists 1999:160-1; Suzanne L Sheffield in Shteir & Liveman 2006:259; Chansigaud Hist ill nat. 2009: 130; R Fairley's biography 1988 ; Robert Fairley:Jemima: Paintings & Memoirs of a Victorian Lady, 1998; Robert Fairley: Blackburn's Birds. 1993 active in Edinburgh & at second home at Roshven on the southern shore of Loch Ailort (bought 1854); travelled widely, esp.Northern Europe &Mediterran. 27451215
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