Susan Frances Sophia Dumaresq b. 1832

Also known as Susan Frances Sophia Hope
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A nineteenth-century amateur sketcher and member of the well-known Dumaresq family. She trained with Conrad Martens before marrying the son of the Earl of Hopetoun who went on to develop some of the first sugar plantations in Australia.

Citations

  • 'NSW Birth Records : V1832704 17/1832’.

  • Gray, N. (1966), 'William James Dumaresq’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol. 1 Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Morrison, A. A. (1966), 'Louis Hope’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol. 4 Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Martens, C. (1849), 'Account Books’, Sydney: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, ms., entry for 6 September 1849.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870