Matilda Heming
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| name = Matilda Heming
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| caption = Study of Matilda Lowry (later Heming) standing at a sketching table
by John Flaxman, 1803
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| birth_name = Matilda Lowry
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1796}}
| birth_place = London, United Kingdom
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| known_for = Watercolor
Landscape art
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File:Matilda Heming-Lowry - Backwater, Weymouth.jpg]]
Matilda Heming, née Lowry (1796–1855) was a British watercolourist.
Biography
Heming was born in London, England. She was the daughter of Wilson Lowry. The engraver Joseph Wilson Lowry 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.[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39000/39000-h/39000-h.htm 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 Today it is in the collection of the British Museum, along with a few more landscapes and a portrait she made of the writer Mary Somerville.[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=matilda%20heming Matilda Heming] in the British Museum
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Category:British watercolourists
Category:British women painters
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