Constance Muriel Bolton (née Beard, 29 December 1884 – 30 March 1949) was a New Zealand artist. Born in

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, New Zealand, on 29 December 1884, she was the daughter of Spencer Francis Beard and Marion Rolleston Smith, and the eldest of four children. Bolton was educated in England and returned to New Zealand in 1913 to study at the Elam School of Art in

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. She married Edward Yates Bolton in 1922 and as an artist she was known under her married name (they divorced 1929). She travelled in the United Kingdom to study at the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...

in London and became an Associate in 1928. Returning to New Zealand in 1930, she married Frederick Charles Renyard in 1937. Bolton exhibited with the

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and the New Zealand Society of Artists exhibition in 1933.

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