Elizabeth Blomfield (10 August 1880 – 17 August 1984) was a New Zealand artist. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the

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, Dunedin.

Biography

Blomfield was born in

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to painter Charles Blomfield and his wife Ellen. She learnt painting from her father and C. F. Goldie and specialised in floral paintings and portraits; later in her life she also painted landscapes. She exhibited with the Otago Art Society and the Auckland Society of Arts. One of her oil paintings of Dunedin is in the Hocken Collections. Blomfield was buried at

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, in a plot adjacent to her father's grave.

Personal life

Blomfield married William Kendon in 1908 and following her marriage exhibited as Bessie Kendon or Elizabeth Kendon.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blomfield, Bessie 1880 births 1984 deaths New Zealand centenarians 20th-century New Zealand painters People from Auckland Women centenarians 20th-century New Zealand women artists Burials at Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland