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Amateur painter, wife of Admiral Sir George Bedford, Governor of Western Australia, who painted wildflowers in the environs of Perth and Albany from 1902-1909. She exhibited watercolours of wildflowers with the WA Society of Arts in 1908. Fifty-two of her wildflower paintings and her husband's landscape paintings are held by the Battye Library. Lady Bedford donated a chalice and paten to Beaconsfield Anglican Church in memory of her husband. This was made by Levinsons but can no longer be traced.
'Truthful Thomas' described her as:
Source: pers.com. Dorothy Erickson (10/4/2013)
WA Society of Arts exhibition catalogues.
‘Truthful Thomas’, Through the Spy-glass. Short Sketches of Well-known Westralians As Others See Them. Perth: Praagh & Lloyd, 1905.
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