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Latitude
-32.728465
Longitude
151.9380101
Start Date
1833-01-01
End Date
1911-01-01

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ID
tb9582

Extended Data

Birth Place
Port Stephens, NSW, Australia
Biography
sketcher, was born in Port Stephens, New South Wales, only daughter of James Edward Ebsworth, accountant and assistant commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company, and Anne, née Coryndon. Her father worked for the company at Port Stephens in various capacities from 1828 to 1851 and Marion sketched several views of its properties (Mitchell Library): Booral House on AA Comp Estate, Stroud Port Stephens where Prof. Huxley Stayed between Years 1846 and 1849 (pencil), Booral Estate, Booral House on Hill (pencil) and The Peach Trees, near Stroud, Port Stephens (1868, monotone watercolours). Other known sketches (ML) include a pen-and-ink Distant view of Parramatta (c.1848) and Near Boolaydeelah (now Bulahdelah, on the north coast of New South Wales), a monotone watercolour of about 1846. When Miss Ebsworth exhibited a copy of a river scene with the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1877, it was called 'good and promising work’ although she was then aged about forty-four. She died, unmarried, on 11 July 1911 at Alverton, Hunter’s Hill, Sydney. This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1992 Last updated: 2011
Born
b. 1833
Summary
Marion Ebsworth made landscape sketches of the north coast region of New South Wales. She exhibited with the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1877.
Gender
Female
Died
11-Jul-11
Age at death
78