TLCMap Gazetteer of Historical Australian Places

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Lady Gwendoline Bragg

Layer: DAOO Artists with known birth places and birth years
Type: Other

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Latitude: -34.9275
Longitude: 138.6
Start Date: 1871-01-01
End Date: 1871-01-01

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DAAO URL: https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lady-gwendoline-bragg
Birth Place: Adelaide, SA, Australia
Biography: Born Gwendoline Todd in Adelaide. Studied at the Adelaide School of Design c.1888. Married Professor W.H. Bragg in 1889 (later Sir William Bragg, President of the Royal Society, and Nobel Prize winner). Both she and her husband painted landscapes in watercolours and both exhibited them at the SA Society of Arts in 1896 – 'their paintings were praised in the press and pronounced virtually indistinguishable’. The Braggs moved to Yorkshire in 1909. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1999 Last updated: 2011
Born: b. c.1871
Summary: Late nineteenth-century painter of watercolour landscapes who studied at the Adelaide School of Design in the late 1880s. Bragg was the wife of fellow painter Sir William Bragg who would go on to become the President of the Royal Society and a Nobel Prize winner.
Gender: Female
Died: 1929
Age at death: 58