300px, ''Warrens Creek'' by Emma Maria Walrond Emma Maria Walrond (née Evans; 1859 – 10 October 1943) was an English-born New Zealand landscape painter known for her landscapes located in the parts of

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Biography

Born Emma Maria Evans in England, she was the daughter of Thomas Fisher Evans. On 7 December 1881, she married Robert Bruce Walrond, a New Zealander, at

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, London, and they moved to

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. They had a son, Cecil. She began exhibiting in the late 1880s (usually as Mrs. E. M. Walrond) and continued until at least 1907, transitioning from floral

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to the landscapes of the North Island countryside for which she is best known. She painted in both oils and watercolours and was successful in selling her work. Some of her work is in the collection of the

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. Walrond died in Auckland on 10 October 1943, and was buried at

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