Georgiana McCrae
Georgiana Huntly McCrae ( born March 15, 1804 in London, † May 24 1890 in Hawthorn in Melbourne) was a Scottish- Australian painter and diarist.
Early life
Georgiana was an illegitimate daughter of George, Marquis of Huntly and later 5th Duke of Gordon, and Jane Graham Rock Moor. Her father played in their lives hardly a role and spent her earliest childhood in Scotland with her grandparents. 1809 Georgiana lived with her mother in the London Borough of Camden, where she attended a convent school. After about two years, she had to change schools because the tuition was no longer paid, a short time later it was recognized in Claybrook House in Fulham their talent. Then Georgiana was taught at home.
Training, Education and Academy
Georgianas first art teacher was Louis Mauleon, under him they learned with black and red chalk drawing. After the death of her aunt, Margaret Graham ( † 1813), she inherited the house and 400 pounds. The following winter she got music lessons from the novelist Frances Holcroft and 1814 with the painter John Varley ( 1778-1842 ). Under the care of Abbé Huteau were John Glover (1767-1849) and John Thomas Serres (1759-1825) more teachers. Later she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts, and was with the Swiss Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) and Mary Anne Knight ( † 1816), mother of the British Lord Chancellor Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro compared. 1820 she won the silver medal at London's Royal Society of Arts for the painting, which her grandfather, the 4th Duke of Gordon, showed and 1821 Portrait of a French lady.
Marriage and children
On September 25, 1830 Georgiana Huntly McCrae married to Gordon Castle, near Edinburgh her cousin ( first degree) Andrew Murison McCrae ( 1800-1874 ). From the marriage seven children were born, including George Gordon McCrae ( 1833-1927 ). They lived alternately in Edinburgh, Westminster and London. In all the time she gave the painting is not up and took her family often for study purposes.
Later life
In November 1838 her husband embarked on the Royal Saxon one to Australia and Georgiana had to stay because of birth complications in London. 1840 she met with her children in Sydney and they moved to Melbourne where he could practice law. Here she met the writer William Howitt, the painter Nicholas Chevalier, the writer and painter Louisa Anne Meredith, as well as the painter Julie Visseux to know. In a Malstudie in the environment where they painted the natives and landscape, Georgiana suffered a hip injury. 1867 separated the couple, Andrew McCrae was a magistrate by Kilmore and Georgiana traveled to Great Britain, where she remained until 1874.
, 1934, her grandson Hugh McCrae her diary with pictures and sketches of the Australian flora and fauna.