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Nationality
  
United Kingdom

Parents
  
John Alexander MacPherson

Fanny Holroyd

Born
  
17 November 1863
Moonee Ponds

Died
  
1924, London, United Kingdom

Fanny Holroyd or Fannie Fetherstonhaugh Macpherson (1863 – 1924) was an Australian-British painter.

Holroyd was born in Moonee Ponds as the daughter of the premier of Victoria John Alexander MacPherson. She studied art in London at the Slade school of art and met the painter Charles Holroyd in Rome. They married in 1891 and he became director of the Tate. Her husband was knighted in 1903 and in 1905 her portrait of her husband was included in the book Women Painters of the World.

Holroyd died in London.

References

Fanny Holroyd Wikipedia


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