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.
by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1833-1857
NPG 2772(28b)
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt showing his pictures
by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1844
NPG 2772(28a)
Art
Literature, Journalism and Publishing
Groups
Artists and artisans
Women artists
Place
Edinburgh




