Matilda Heming

Matilda Heming
Matilda Heming
	Study of Matilda Lowry (later Heming) standing at a sketching table by John Flaxman, 1803
Born	Matilda Lowry; 1796; London, United Kingdom
Died	1855 (aged 58–59)
Nationality	British
Known for	Watercolor; Landscape art

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

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

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
Matilda Heming in the British Museum

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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