National Portrait Gallery Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, Accession number: 2011.5
Curatorial description (Accessed: 28 January 2015)
Margaret Robertson (née Whyte, 1811-1866) was the daughter of settlers George and Jessie Whyte, who emigrated to Van Diemen's Land from Scotland in 1832. In September 1834, Margaret married Scottish-born entrepreneur and landowner William Robertson (1798-1874), who had arrived in the colony in 1822 and who, in the decade leading up to his marriage, had acquired land nearby to a property owned by Margaret's family. The first of Margaret and William's seven children - four sons and three daughters - was born in 1835. The family resided in Hobart until the early 1860s, when Roberston relocated to his Victorian estate, where Margaret died in February 1866.
