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Last Name Forrest

Given Name Margaret Elvire °

alt. Names M. E. F. ; Margaret Hamersley ; Lady Forrest, Baroness of Bunbury ;

Marriage surveyor, and topographical draughtsman John Forrest, First Baron Forrest of Bunbury(1847-1918) in 1876 ;

Children

Year born 1844 in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime

Year died 1929

Place of death Picton, Bunbury, or near Geraldton, Western Australia

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education botany. Cambridge University ; informally taught by painters Marianne North and Marian Ellis Rowan

Country of Activity Australia

Worked for

Patronage founding member of Wilgie Club, Western Australian Society of Arts ;

Collaborators illustrator -> Marian Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) ;

Techniques botanical painting, watercolour, gouache, and oil painting ;

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Archival sources https://www.geni.com/people/Margaret-Forrest/6000000008838301128 ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/forrest-margaret.html ;

Published sources AKL 42 2004: 400 ;

other Further Place of Activity: France (moved to Australia in 1850).

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