Georgiana Zornlin

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Georgiana Margaretta Zornlin (* 1800 ; † 1881 ) was an English painter and writer.

Life

She was the daughter of John Jacob Zornlin, a London trader with Swiss roots, and Elizabeth Alsager, the sister of journalist Thomas Massa Alsager . The writer Rosina Zornlin was her sister. In 1821 she published early lithographs of Christchurch in Dorset with Joseph Netherclift . In the 1820s she was a student of Benjamin Robert Haydon .

Nicholas Vansittart , Portrait of Georgiana Zornlin (1844)
Benjamin Robert Haydon , portrait by Georgiana Zornlin (1825)

Zornlin anonymously wrote the self-illustrated work A Paper Lantern for Puseyites , a light-hearted poetic parody of the Oxford movement . She also published works on the Urim and Thummim and heraldry . William Jaggard 's 1911 Shakespeare Bibliography lists three illustrations by her for the Shakespeare Society .

credentials

  1. ^ A b Zornlin Family , Notes and queries, page 402; on archive.org. Retrieved November 16, 2016
  2. ^ Zornlin, Georgiana Margaretta 1800-1881 on the pages of worldcat.org. Retrieved August 21, 2013
  3. ^ Letter from BR Haydon to his student Georgiana Zornlin dated March 9, 1824 on the pages of the National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved August 21, 2013
  4. ↑ Shakespeare bibliography by William Jaggard on archive.org. Retrieved August 21, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Zornlin, Georgiana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zornlin, Georgiana Margaretta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1800
DATE OF DEATH 1881