Dora d’Istria
Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer
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Harriet Hosmer
American sculptor and innovator
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
Marianne North
English naturalist and flower-painter
Vinnie Ream
The first woman sculptor to receive an order from the United States government for a statue.
Martha King
Martha King was New Zealand’s first resident botanical artist.
Edith Stanway Halcombe
Edith Halcombe was versatile and capable in the frontier environment, and her promotion of Jersey cattle contributed to the success of New Zealand’s dairy industry. Professional tuition gave her the ability to make a competent record of the changing landscapes in which she lived. Her paintings and drawings are held in public collections in New Zealand and Australia.
Margaret Olrog Stoddart
New Zealand’s foremost flower painter of her time, Margaret Olrog Stoddart travelled and exhibited her work internationally.
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.
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.