Mary Dawson Turner

Mary Dawson Turner, before her marriage Mary Palgrave (1774–1850),[1] was an English artist. She is known for her series of portraits, making etchings from drawings collected by her husband.[2]

Mary Dawson Turner, 1815 drawing by Ramsay Richard Reinagle

Life

She was the daughter of William Palgrave, one of 12 children; her sister Anne married Edward Rigby. She married Dawson Turner, and they had 11 children, of whom eight survived to adulthood.[1][3]

Works

She etched a series of 50 illustrations by John Sell Cotman for her husband's Account of a Tour in Normandy (1820). She also made collections of etched portraits. One set of 50 etchings, published in 1823, was followed by a set of 100 portraits of "distinguished individuals", published at Great Yarmouth. There was a larger collection including also buildings and landscape subjects.[4]

Notes
  1. Joseph Dalton Hooker; Leonard Huxley (1 May 2011). Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I. Cambridge University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-108-03100-4.
  2. William Creasy Ewing (1837). Norfolk lists, from the Reformation to the present time. p. 177.
  3. Fraser, Angus. "Turner, Dawson". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27846. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. Lowndes, William Thomas (1865). The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. p. 2722.
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