Eliza Stewart (née Anscombe; 1872 – 25 November 1934) was a New Zealand painter, born in
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
, England. She was the elder sister of
New Zealand architect
Edmund Anscombe
Edmund Anscombe (8 February 1874 – 9 October 1948) was one of the most important figures to shape the architectural and urban fabric of New Zealand. He was important, not only because of the prolific nature of his practice and the quality of ...
.
Her parents were carpenter Edmund Anscombe (1849–1928) and Eliza Anscombe (née Mason) (–1921).
[Thomson, J. (ed.) (1998) "Southern people: A dictionary of Otago Southland biography."Dunedin: Longacre Press. p. 11. ] The family migrated to New Zealand in 1874 on the ''Christian McAusland'' and settled initially in Rockyside (now
Lookout Point) and later in
Caversham, both now part of
Dunedin.
Anscombe had two sisters (Agnes Emily Black and Edith Violet Brown) and three brothers (Edmund, Herbert, and Charles Ernest). She is described in ''Stone's Directory'' in 1892 and 1893 as a "teacher of drawing and painting". She moved to
Clutha District later and was listed in the electoral roll as an artist living in
Balclutha.
Anscombe married Gilbert Stewart in 1895 and had four children: Grace Ledingham Stewart in 1902, Winifred Pearl Mason Stewart in 1904, Alice Sophia Brazier Stewart in 1906 and Lloyd Campbell Stewart in 1907. She died at Warepa, near Balclutha, on 25 November 1934.
References
* Highlights at Hocken, Documenting The History of New Zealand Art, University of Otago
People from Sussex
Artists from Dunedin
New Zealand painters
New Zealand women painters
1872 births
1934 deaths
British emigrants to New Zealand
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