Agnes Dunbar Moodie Fitzgibbon

Agnes Dunbar Moodie Fitzgibbon
Born	1833 Coburg, Ontario
Died	1913 Toronto

Agnes Dunbar Moodie Fitzgibbon (1833 — 1913) was a Canadian artist living in Ontario.

The daughter of John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie and Susanna Strickland, she was born Agnes Dunbar Moodie on a farm near Coburg. Around five years later, the family moved to Belleville. She learned how to paint flowers from her mother. In 1868, she published Canadian Wild Flowers, viewed as one of the first serious botanical works published in Canada, which included text by Catharine Parr Traill, her aunt. The book, very expensive for its time, was sold by subscription, largely through Fitzgibbon's efforts; as a widow, she needed the money to support herself and her children. Her work was also shown at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.

Fitzgibbon was married twice: first around 1850 to Charles Thomas FitzGibbon, a barrister, who died in 1865 and then in 1870 to Brown Chamberlin, later the Queen's Printer. She had eight children with her first husband and one with her second.

She died in Toronto in 1913.

Her work is held in the collection of the botany department at the University of Toronto.

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