Matilda Heming, née Lowry (1796–1855) was a British watercolourist.

Biography

Heming was born in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, England. She was the daughter of

Wilson Lowry Wilson Lowry FRS (24 January 1762 – 23 June 1824) was an English engraver. Life He was born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, the son of Strickland Lowry, a portrait painter. The family settled in Worcester, and Wilson Lowry, as a boy, left home ...

. The engraver

Joseph Wilson Lowry Joseph Wilson Lowry (1803–1879) was an English engraver. He was the son of Wilson Lowry and his second wife Rebecca Delvalle and was born on 7 October 1803. His mother's sister, Abigail, was mother of the economist David Ricardo.David Ricardo, ...

was her younger half-brother. She is known for watercolour portraits, but her landscape watercolour ''Backwater, Weymouth'', was included in the 1905 book ''

Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication. Th ...

''. Today it is in the collection of the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

, along with a few more landscapes and a portrait she made of the writer

Mary Somerville Mary Somerville (; , formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary ...

.Matilda Heming
in the British Museum

References

1796 births 1855 deaths Painters from London British women painters {{UK-painter-18thC-stub