Rachel Roxburgh

Roxburgh was born like her parents in Sydney, Australia. She was born in Point Piper on 21 September 1915. Her parents were Norah Marjorie (born Carleton) and John Norton Roxburgh.^[1] She attended Ascham School^[1] and the East Sydney Technical College, where she received Grade A (over 83%) for both the Introductory Art Course in 1932^[2] and the Intermediate Course in 1933.^[3] She then attended the Adelaide Perry Art School in Sydney.^[4]

Roxburgh received a British Empire Medal in 1979 for services to the community.^[5]

A 1939 portrait of Roxburgh by Adelaide Perry is held in the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.^[6]

The Art Gallery of New South Wales holds 21 boxes of papers relating to Roxburgh's work as a painter and potter, including extensive personal correspondence from 1945 to 1990, diaries, sketchbooks, newspaper cuttings and exhibition catalogues.^[7]

One folio package and 19 boxes of her extensive research into the history of colonial buildings about which she wrote, correspondence and family papers all gathered between 1960 and 1986 are held by the National Library of Australia.^[8]

The National Trust held a Retrospective Exhibition of her paintings, pottery, books, photographs and memorabilia at Cooma Cottage, Yass and Riversdale, Goulburn in May–June 1993.^[9]

Roxburgh died on 13 April 1991 at Castle Hill, New South Wales.^[1]