Lydia Larden

Lydia Larden (1826 – 1901) was a British artist. Some of her watercolours are in the collection of the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, New Zealand.

Biography

Larden was born Mary Lydia Fanny Bucknill in 1826 the daughter of Samuel Bucknill and Mary Birch. She married the Rev George Edge Larden in 1847 and they had four children. One of their daughters Lydia Etheldreda (known as Ethel) married William Birch and emigrated to New Zealand. In 1922 Ethel Birch donated a collection of Lydia's paintings to the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui.

Gallery of artworks

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