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

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 58–59)
NationalityBritish
Known forWatercolor
Landscape art
Backwater, Weymouth, Dorset

Biography

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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]

References

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  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