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Australian Women
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Fiveash, Rosa Catherine (1854 - 1938) |
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| Born: 22 July 1854 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Died: 13 February 1938 Adelaide. | ||
While studing at the Adelaide School of Design under H P Gill, Principal, and Louis Tannert, Master of the School of Painting, Rosa Fiveash chose to specialise in painting Australian flora. She was commissioned by the conservator of forests, John Ednie Brown, to illustrate his Forest Flora of Australia and orchidologist R S Rogers to illustrate his works on South Australian orchids. The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and the State Herbarium have a collection of her original flower paintings. It was Fiveash who introduced the art of china painting to Adelaide. |
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| URL: The home page for this entity is located at http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/fiveash-rosa.html | |
| Sources used to compile this entry: Steele Scott, Chris. Australian Garden History Vol 7 No 6 May/June 1996. | |
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Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 14 November 2008 http://womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0328b.htm |