Eliza Blyth

Eliza Blyth was born in Essex, England in 1820. Her mother, Elizabeth Crowther, was a sketcher.^[1] Blyth had 18 siblings, some of whom moved to Tasmania before her.^[2]

In 1848 she migrated to Tasmania on the Himalaya.^[3] Also on board was Francis Nixon, the first Anglican bishop in Tasmania.^[4] He was a watercolour painter and helped her develop her artistic technique.^[2]

Blyth suffered from chronic rheumatism and exhaustion and died on 27 March 1894 at Sorell, Tasmania.^[5]

The Art Gallery of Ballarat holds examples of her work.^[6]