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=Jane Cannan=

Artist who drew 1850s Melbourne.

Life
Born Jane Dorothea Claude in 1822 of Berlin Huguenot descent. She grew up in Liverpool and Ambleside in England's Lake District and was a charity worker and school teacher.She married David Cannan in 1853, a clerk for the firm Morewood & Rogers which manufactured corrugated and galvanised iron products and portable iron buildings. They sailed to Melbourne where he was the firm's agent for four years.

Her drawings of Melbourne townscapes and buildings are significant Australian historical records. She had three children, Louisa who died in Melbourne as an infant, Charles Cannan who became an Oxford don, and Edwin Cannan who became a professor at the London school of Economics. She is the grandmother of the novelist Joanna Cannan and the poet May Wedderburn Cannan.

She died at the age of 38 of tuberculosis in Madeira.

Works
Sketchbooks and letters in the collections of National Library of Australia, Royal Historical Society of Victoria.