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.
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Dorothy Kate Richmond was born in 1861 as the third of five children of the politician and painter James Crowe Richmond (1822–1898) and his wife Mary Smith in Parnell, a suburb of Auckland . She first grew up in the Taranaki region . In 1862 she came to Nelson , where her father worked as an editor for the Nelson Examiner and on 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 in Edward Stafford's ministry and his children lived mainly with relatives, particularly his sister Jane Maria Atkinson. In 1869 the family moved back to Nelson and Dorothy Kate Richmond attended Miss Bell's Young Ladies' College. In 1873, her father brought his three oldest children to Europe, where they were to continue their education. Dorothy Kate Richmond's studies focused on music and the arts. She first attended Miss Cranch's School in Blackheath for a year and lived with her maternal grandmother. In 1874 she went to a school in Zurich . In the following two years she lived in Dresden , where she received drawing lessons. In 1878 she joined Bedford College , a women's college in London, and took a two-year course at the Slade School of Fine Art . Her achievements enabled her to switch to teaching with Alphonse Legros and a Slade scholarship in the second year .
After graduating, Dorothy Kate Richmond returned to Nelson, where she ran the household for her father. She was now one of the few New Zealanders with a professional artistic education. In 1883 she became an art teacher at Nelson College for Girls. In 1885 she went back to Europe for further studies, but fell ill and stayed in Dieppe and Italy until she recovered . Back in Nelson, she began to focus on painting, creating some oil portraits of relatives and household helpers. After an intermittent trip to Europe with her father, she joined Nelson’s drawing club in 1890 and became a member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (NZAFA). In 1894 she moved to Wellington with her father . Two years later she became a student of the painter James Nairn (1859-1904) there.
In 1898, Richmond's father died, leaving her financially supported so that she could live independently. In the same year she was elected a member of the Council of NZAFA, but soon went back to Europe. There she attended a summer school of Norman Garstin in Caudebec in 1901 , where she met the painter Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947). Together they traveled through France and Italy, where, among other things, they painted genre scenes from city life. In 1902 they joined the artists' colony at Newlyn ( Newlyn School ). Then they toured Belgium and Holland with Garstin.
After a short separation, Richmond visited Scotland and Hodgkins North Africa, the two painters returned to New Zealand together in 1903. In Wellington they rented a studio where they gave private lessons. In 1904 they exhibited their European paintings together at the McGregor Wright and Company's Art Gallery in Wellington, Lambton Quay. In Rotorua they painted Māori women the following year . In 1906 Hodgkins went to London and Richmond continued the Wellington studio on his own. Richmond later moved to York Bay near Eastbourne . From 1909 to 1924 she taught at the Fitzherbert Terrace School (later Samuel Marsden Collegiate School).
In 1920 Richmond worked with artist friend Margaret Stoddart (1865–1934) in the Ruapehu District and then increasingly turned to the motif of the mountain landscape. In 1925 she painted on Mount Egmont and in 1929 on Mount Cook . During later visits to her family in the Taranaki region, she took additional pictures of Mount Egmont. The watercolor Mount Egmont from 1929 is counted among her most famous works.
Richmond worked for the NZAFA for around 30 years and was an important member of the Wellington art scene. She exhibited her pictures from 1905 to 1934 at exhibitions of the Kunstverein in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch . She is known for her watercolors of plants, animals and landscapes. Her works are contained in 14 public collections, including that of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa . She died in Wellington on April 16, 1935 .
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- ↑ Mount Egmont collections.tepapa.govt.nz, accessed December 28, 2013.
- ↑ Teara: Story: Richmond, Dorothy Kate
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richmond, Dorothy Kate |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richmond, Dolla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parnell , Auckland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1935 |
| Place of death | Wellington |