Elizabeth Armstrong (artist)
Elizabeth Caroline Armstrong (28 September 1859 – 21 February 1930) was an Australian artist and art teacher. She was the first in a long line of influential female art educators appointed to the South Australian School of Design. According to one art historian, she was the first woman to hold a teaching post in a major Australian art school. Early life and training Armstrong was the second daughter of James Armstrong, a mail guard, and his wife Mary Ann (née Stickley). The family lived at 141 Wakefield Street, Adelaide. In her early twenties, Lizzie Armstrong (as she was then known) was praised for watercolours entered in the Adelaide Exhibition in the Adelaide Town Hall in 1881. From 1882 she studied under Louis Tannert, head of the School of Painting. Her works were among those chosen to represent the school in the 1887 Jubilee Exhibition in Adelaide and in the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in 1888. Under Harry Pelling Gill, head of the School of Design, she took courses ...
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