Margaret Fitchett
Hannah Margaret Edith Fitchett (married name Elmore, 16 June 1875 – 6 October 1958), sometimes called Daisy Fitchett, was a New Zealand artist.
Biography[edit]
Fitchett was born at the parsonage in the Christchurch suburb of St Albans, the daughter of Alfred Fitchett, later Dean of Dunedin, and Theresa Margaret Fitchett.[1][2] She studied at Dunedin Art School (now Otago Polytechnic), then traveled to Europe to study in Dresden under portrait painter Franz Kops.[3] Fitchett also studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, Rue de Berri, where her professors included William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier.[3] Following her time at the Académie Julian, Fitchett studied under the tuition of impressionist Louis Deschamps[3]
When Fitchett returned to Dunedin, she took pupils for a time before returning to Europe to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, under genre painter Viggo Johannsen and miniaturist Laura Sarauw.[3][4]
Fitchett exhibited at the Otago Society of Arts between 1896 and 1908, and her work is represented in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.[4]
Fitchett married metallurgical engineer Frank Elmore at St Mary Abbots in Kensington, London, on 12 December 1908,[5][6] and lived in England until her death in Cuckfield, Sussex, on 6 October 1958.[7] She had been predeceased by her husband in 1932.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Birth search: registration number 1875/12074". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Births". Lyttelton Times. 18 June 1875. p. 2. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Miss Margaret Fitchett". Otago Witness. 24 December 1902. p. 18. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ a b Platt, Una (1980). "Fitchett, Margaret or Daisy (Mrs Elmore)". Nineteenth Century New Zealand artists: a guide & handbook. Christchurch: Avon Fine Prints. p. 94. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Mr Frank Elmore, A.M.I.E.E." Otago Daily Times. 14 September 1932. p. 7. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Marriage". Evening Star. 14 December 1908. p. 4. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995". Ancestry.com Operations. 2010.
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