Fanny Holroyd or Fannie Fetherstonhaugh Macpherson (1863 – 1924) was an Australian-British painter.
Fanny Holroyd | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 November 1863 |
| Died | 17 April 1924 |
| Nationality | British |
Holroyd was born in Moonee Ponds as the daughter of the premier of Victoria John Alexander MacPherson. She studied art in London at the Slade school of art and met the painter Charles Holroyd in Rome. They married in 1891 and he became director of the Tate. Her husband was knighted in 1903 and in 1905 her portrait of her husband was included in the book Women Painters of the World.[1]
Holroyd died in Syracuse, Sicily.
References
edit- ^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
External links
edit- biographical details in notes about her husband's family
- 2 drawings by Holroyd in the British Museum
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