Matilda Heming Explained

Matilda Heming
Birth Name:Matilda Lowry
Birth Place:London, United Kingdom
Nationality:British
Known For:Watercolor
Landscape art

Matilda Heming, née Lowry (1796 - 1855) was a British watercolourist.

Biography

Heming was born in London, England. She was the daughter of Wilson Lowry. The engraver Joseph Wilson Lowry was her younger half-brother. She is known for watercolour portraits, but her landscape watercolour Backwater, Weymouth, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[1] Today it is in the collection of the British Museum, along with a few more landscapes and a portrait she made of the writer Mary Somerville.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
  2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=matilda%20heming Matilda Heming