Matilda Heming

Matilda Heming, née Lowry (1796 – 1855) was a British watercolour painter.

Matilda Heming
Study of Matilda Lowry (later Heming) standing at a sketching table by John Flaxman, 1803
Born
Matilda Lowry

1796 (1796)
London, United Kingdom
Died1855 (aged 5859)
NationalityBritish
Known forWatercolor
Landscape art
Backwater, Weymouth, Dorset

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 painting 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]

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. Matilda Heming in the British Museum


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