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New Zealand painter

New Zealand painter with an extraordinary zest and independence of spirit, whose lifetime’s response to human character and very individual use of rich colour communicates her vivid reverence and joyful celebration of life.

Acclaimed as ‘one of the best portrait painters New Zealand has produced.’

As an artist she was extremely self-critical, maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, but she was generous in her help to young artists. Although well regarded as a landscape painter, her major contribution to New Zealand art lies in the way she revitalised formal portraiture in the 1920s and 1930s.

English artist, one of the first to assert the right of women to obtain admission as students to the Royal Academy.