She was the first in a long line of influential female art educators appointed to the South Australian School of Design.

[9] Her students who went on to become teachers at that institution included Gladys Good, Margaret Kelly (later Walloschech), Beulah Leicester, Jessamine Buxton, Gwen Barringer and Dora Chapman.

[10] Another student was Stella Bowen, whose oil painting of oleanders was one of the works from Armstrong’s still-life class that impressed critics in an exhibition in May 1912.

[12] She received praise for Wattle from Sunny New South Wales and Cosmos in the Society of Arts’ Federal Exhibition in the Institute Building in 1900.

[14] Catherine Speck suggests that Armstrong should be acknowledged as an early painter of Australian flora and refers to her ‘majestic’ Waratahs c.1906.

[20] Teaching was a vocation for Armstrong, and she did not end her employment at the School of Arts and Crafts until her seventieth birthday, the Education Department’s date for compulsory retirement.

She died unexpectedly in England of a stroke on 21 February 1930, and her ashes were deposited a few months later in the grave of her nephew, William Rowland Fairweather, at West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide.

[22] At the School of Arts and Crafts prize-giving ceremony later that year, a portrait of Armstrong by her colleague and ex-student Beulah Leicester was unveiled.

[24] Students and staff of the School of Arts and Crafts designed and constructed the Elizabeth Armstrong Memorial Library out of European oak.