Irish artist Elizabeth Gray was born in Dublin in 1822 before settling in Victoria in the 1850s, where she met and married squatter Charles Gray on 19 March 1857. Charles had settled Nareeb Nareeb, a relatively isolated property south of Glenthompson, some 17 years earlier, and established himself as a highly successful sheep breeder. Elizabeth, who primarily worked in watercolour and pen and ink, continued her artistic practice intermittently throughout the 1850s to 1870s. In 1867, when the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Alfred, arrived in the colonies, Mr and Mrs Gray were invited to a Sunday lunch with the Prince at Hopkins Hill, the neighbouring property as a guest of John Moffatt. Elizabeth presented His Ro...