Mary Elizabeth Livingston
Mary Elizabeth Livingston (21 August 1857 – 18 December 1913) was a late-colonial
Tasmanian native flora.[1]
Biography
Mary Elizabeth Livingston was born 21 August 1857 in
National Gallery School, Melbourne in 1879 where Eugene von Guerard was Master of Painting.[2][3] Unusually, she was enrolled in The School of Design and The School of Painting simultaneously.[4] During the 1880s, Mary Livingston taught painting and drawing at schools in Hobart, as well as offering private classes. On 29 March 1890 she married Robert Sydney Milles (1858–1925), a surveyor/engineer,[5] at St. Andrews Church in Hobart.[6] They had three children, Thomas Livingston (b.1891),[7] Mary Lillias (b.1894) and Robert William (b.1899).[8]
Livingston continued to paint after her marriage, thereafter signing her work M. E. Milles.
Livingston was a contributor to commemorative albums, including the gift presented to Lady Sarah Smith, the wife of the Premier Sir Francis Smith, in 1883.[9] In 1887 the Tasmanian Government commissioned an album to present to the Earl of Aberdeen, John Hamilton-Gordon on his visit to the state.[10] She also painted on china and porcelain.
She died on 18 December 1913, in Hobart at the age of 54.[11]
Collections
- Allport Library and Museum of Fine Art, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
References
- ^ Backhouse, Sue (1988). Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century. Hobart: Pandani Press. p. 128.
- ^ Report of the Trustees of Public Library, Museums, & National Gallery of Victoria for 1879., pg 57.
- ^ "Mary E. Livingston". Design & Art Australian Online. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ Ibid
- ^ "Robert Sydney Milles (surveyor) NG1580 [Records]". Libraries Tasmania. 1892. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Mercury. Vol. LV, no. 6, 273. Tasmania, Australia. 31 March 1890. p. 1. Retrieved 19 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Mercury. Vol. LVII, no. 6, 541. Tasmania, Australia. 9 February 1891. p. 1. Retrieved 19 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Mercury. Vol. LXXIII, no. 9050. Tasmania, Australia. 4 March 1899. p. 1. Retrieved 19 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ held at the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Art, Hobart, Tasmania
- ^ Mercury, Tuesday 26 April 1887, page 2
- ^ "Family Notices". The Mercury. Vol. XCIX, no. 13, 673. Tasmania, Australia. 19 December 1913. p. 1. Retrieved 19 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
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