About Fanny Holroyd
Lived 1863 – 1924 (aged 60). Fanny Holroyd was an Australian and British painter.
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 Syracuse, Sicily.
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Who was Fanny Holroyd?
Australian-British painter
When was Fanny Holroyd born?
Fanny Holroyd was born on 17 November 1863 in Moonee Ponds.
When did Fanny Holroyd die?
Fanny Holroyd died on 17 April 1924 in Syracuse.
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Fanny Holroyd was a painter.
What nationality was Fanny Holroyd?
Fanny Holroyd was Australian and British.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Fanny Holroyd. https://biography.guide/fanny-holroyd/
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