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Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)

(1823-1909), Artist and memoirist

Sitter in 2 portraits
Artist of 7 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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Sir John Shelley, 6th Bt, by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn) - NPG 2772(29b)

Sir John Shelley, 6th Bt

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

Henri Adolphe Franconi, by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn) - NPG 2772(31b)

Henri Adolphe Franconi

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

A Rehearsal, by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn) - NPG 2772(56b)

A Rehearsal

by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1844
NPG 2772(56b)

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