Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Wright Fanny Amelia Bayfield ° F. A. B. W. ; Amela Bayfield ; in April 1838 w. admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield in Quebec, surveyor of the St Lawrence River and Gulf four sons and two daughters 1813 or 1814 in Kensington (London), England, 1891 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada Charles Wright, captain in the Royal Engineers, posted to Quebec in 1833 & since 1841 in Charlottetown In England, she studied painting under the same teacher as Queen Victoria; In Charlottetown she taught drawing & music Canada Canadian wild flowers, an album w. 70 paintings, presented to the Public (National) Archives of Canada by a granddaughter of the artist Library & Archives Canada. Other works held at the Glenbow Foundation in Calgary and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum in Charlottetown botanical and topographic drawing, watercolour and painting www.invaluable.com/artist/bayfield-fanny-amelia-4tcwg5y0je ; http://www.passageshistoriques-heritagepassages.ca/ang-eng/recherche_et_archives-research www.biographi.ca/en/bio/wright_fanny_amelia_12E.html ; http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=36 Ruth McKenzie in Dictionary of Canadian Biography 12 (1966): 1131; Robert 2008: figs. 4-6
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