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Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn) (1823-1909), Artist and memoirist

Sitter in 2 portraits
Artist of 6 portraits
Jemima Blackburn was one of the most popular illustrators in Victorian Britain. She illustrated twenty-seven books including Birds from Nature (1862, 1868). Blackburn painted watercolours showing daily family life in the late nineteenth Scottish Highlands.

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Category
Art
Literature, Journalism and Publishing
Groups
Artists and artisans
Women artists
Place
Edinburgh