When was annie dorrington born

Annie taught painting privately from her home in Dorrington exhibited watercolours in the Western Australian pavilion at the Paris and Glasgow international exhibitions. She also shared the prize in the competition to design of the Australian flag in , submitting her entry under the pseudonym 'Ahasuerus'. Suffering bouts of depression, in Annie was admitted to the Claremont Mental Hospital for a few months treatment.

In the couple moved to Serpentine where Charles farmed and grew fruit until Under the name 'Ahasuerus'—a pet name for her husband—in Annie entered an international competition to design an Australian flag.

The other winners were I. Evans , L. Hawkins, E. Nuttall and William Stevens. The new flag was first raised on 3 September over the Exhibition Building in Melbourne. Suffering bouts of depression, in Annie was admitted to the Claremont Mental Hospital for a few months treatment. In the couple moved to Serpentine where Charles farmed and grew fruit until In Annie had again been admitted to Claremont hospital. Holland Impressionist Artists. Wayne Plein Air Artists.

Pierpaolo Curti Artista. Biography - Annie Dorrington - Australian Dictionary of When Annie was aged 4 her father became a tenant farmer at Winkfield, Berkshire. The children led an idyllic childhood near the Thames, riding ponies, painting …. Annie Dorrington :: biography at :: at Design and Art She had six sisters.

Their mother did not want her daughters to marry 'wild colonial boys', but Their mother did not want her daughters to marry 'wild colonial boys', but Annie would defy her. Her father died in and with her mother and siblings she migrated to Victoria in the …. Annie Dorrington immortalised her name in history when in , the year of Federation, she shared first prize with four others in a world-wide competition for the design of the Australian National Flag. Annie Dorrington immortalised her name in history in , the year of Federation, when she shared first prize with four others in a world-wide competition to create a winning design of the Australian National Flag.