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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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2772(29b)

Sir John Shelley, 6th Bt

by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1833-1857
NPG 2772(29b)

2772(28b)

Breakfast at Mr Rogers

by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1833-1857
NPG 2772(28b)

2772(33a)

Charles John Kean

by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1833-1857
NPG 2772(33a)

2772(33b)

Charles John Kean

by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1833-1857
NPG 2772(33b)

2772(28a)

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt showing his pictures

by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1844
NPG 2772(28a)

2772(31b)

Henri Adolphe Franconi

by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1844
NPG 2772(31b)

Place
Edinburgh