Fanny Osborne

From both scientific and artistic points of view, Fanny Osborne’s paintings of the flowers of the indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbs of Great Barrier are exceptional and superbly crafted examples of botanical illustration. They

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Mabel Hill

Mabel Hill’s love of early impressionism coloured her opinion of the movements that followed it. Spending her formative years in New Zealand, then marrying and raising a family instead of studying in Europe as some of her contemporaries were able to do, limited her development as an artist. Although she frequently exhibited with most of the art societies in New Zealand, few of her best works have found their way into public collections.

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Grace Jane Joel

Joel exhibited regularly in France and Great Britain with conservative bodies such as the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Société des artistes français in Paris.

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