Margaret Horne Livingston (c. 1843 - )

Margaret Horne Livingston (c.1843-1880) Painter, exhibiting in Melbourne and Sydney. Studied at Melbourne’s National Gallery School in 1870-78 and was the inaugural teacher of art at Presbyterian Ladies College. She was living and painting at Comodai, a property between Bacchus Marsh and Gisborne, north-west of Melbourne, where she is said to have been visited by her friend and teacher, Louis Buvelot. In 1873 and 1875 – her only Melbourne directory listings – Miss Livingston [sic] is recorded as a professional painter of 18 Napier Street,