Dorothy Kate Richmond
Dorothy Kate Richmond, also called Dolla ( born September 12, 1861 in Parnell, Auckland, † April 16, 1935 in Wellington ) was a New Zealand painter.
Life and work
Dorothy Kate Richmond, was born in 1861 as the third of five children of a politician and painter James Crowe Richmond ( 1822-1898 ) and his wife Mary Smith in Parnell, a suburb of Auckland. First, she grew up in Taranaki. 1862 she came to Nelson, where her father worked as an editor for the Nelson Examiner and in the executive branch of the Nelson Provincial Council. When Dorothy Kate Richmond was four years old, her mother died of scarlet fever. The family returned to Taranaki, where James Crowe Richmond worked at the Ministry of Edward Stafford and his children lived mainly with relatives, especially his sister Jane Maria Atkinson. 1869 the family moved again to Nelson and Dorothy Kate Richmond attended the Miss Bell's Young Ladies' College. 1873 brought her father his three oldest children to Europe, where they should continue their education. Dorothy Kate Richmond's studies focused on music and art. They first visited a year, the Miss Cranch 's school in Blackheath and lived with her maternal grandmother. 1874, she went to a school in Zurich. In the following two years she lived in Dresden, where she received lessons in drawing. In 1878 she joined the Bedford College, a women's college in London, and took a two-year course at the Slade School of Fine Art your achievements allowed her in the second year a change in the teaching of Alphonse Legros and a Slade scholarship.
After studying Dorothy Kate Richmond returned to Nelson, where she her father ran the household. Now you one of the few New Zealanders with a professional artistic training. In 1883 she was an art teacher at Nelson College for Girls. 1885 she went for further studies to Europe again, but became ill and stopped until recovery in Dieppe and Italy. Back in Nelson began to concentrate on painting and created some oil portraits of relatives and domestic servants. After a recent trip to Europe with her father, she joined in 1890 the character of Nelson Club and was a member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts ( NZAFA ). In 1894 she moved with her father to Wellington. Two years later she became a pupil of the painter James Nairn (1859 - 1904).
1898 Richmond's father died, leaving her financially supplies so that they could live independently. In the same year she was elected a member of the council of NZAFA, but soon came back to Europe. There she attended a summer school in 1901 by Norman Garstin Caudebec, where she met the painter Frances Hodgkins ( 1869-1947 ). Together they traveled through France and Italy, where they painted from city life, among other genre scenes. In 1902, she joined the artist colony at Newlyn ( Newlyn School). After that they traveled with Garstin Belgium and Holland.
After a brief separation, Richmond visited Scotland and Hodgkins North Africa, the pair returned painters back together in 1903 to New Zealand. In Wellington they rented a studio where she gave private lessons. In 1904 she presented together their European pictures in McGregor Wright and Company 's Art Gallery in Wellington, Lambton Quay, from. In Rotorua they painted Māori women in the following year. 1906 Hodgkins went to London and Richmond led the Wellington studio on alone. Later Richmond moved to York Bay near Eastbourne. From about 1909 to 1924 she taught at the Fitzherbert Terrace School ( later Samuel Marsden Collegiate School ).
1920 Richmond worked with fellow artist Margaret Stoddart ( 1865-1934 ) in the Ruapehu district and turned increasingly following the motif of the mountain landscape. In 1925, she painted at Mount Egmont and 1929 at Mount Cook. During later visits her family in the Taranaki region, she created more pictures of Mount Egmont. The watercolor Mount Egmont from 1929 is considered one of her best known works.
Richmond worked about 30 years of active for the NZAFA and was an important member of the Wellington art scene. Your pictures she put 1905-1934 on exhibitions of the Art Association in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. She is known for her watercolors of plants, animals and landscapes. Her works are included in 14 public collections, including the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. On April 16, 1935, she died in Wellington.