Hannah Margaret Edith Fitchett (married name Elmore, 16 June 1875 – 6 October 1958), sometimes called Daisy Fitchett, was a New Zealand artist.

Biography

Fitchett was born at the parsonage in the

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suburb of

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, the daughter of

Alfred Fitchett Alfred Robertson Fitchett (1836 – 19 April 1929) was the Dean of Dunedin from 1894 until 1929. Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, in 1836, Fitchett was ordained in 1879, and graduated MA from the University of Otago in 1882. He was Vi ...

, later

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, and Theresa Margaret Fitchett. She studied at Dunedin Art School (now Otago Polytechnic), then traveled to Europe to study in

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under portrait painter Franz Kops. Fitchett also studied in Paris at the

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, Rue de Berri, where her professors included

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and

Gabriel Ferrier Gabriel-Joseph-Marie-Augustin Ferrier (29 September 1847 in Nîmes – 6 June 1914 in Paris) was a French portrait painter and orientalist. Biography His father was a pharmacist. He began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he worke ...

. Following her time at the Académie Julian, Fitchett studied under the tuition of impressionist

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When Fitchett returned to Dunedin, she took pupils for a time before returning to Europe to study at the

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, under genre painter Viggo Johannsen and miniaturist Laura Sarauw. Fitchett exhibited at the Otago Society of Arts between 1896 and 1908, and her work is represented in the collection of the

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. Fitchett married metallurgical engineer Frank Elmore at

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, on 12 December 1908, and lived in England until her death in

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, on 6 October 1958. She had been predeceased by her husband in 1932.

References

1875 births 1958 deaths Artists from Christchurch Otago Polytechnic alumni New Zealand painters New Zealand women painters New Zealand emigrants to England New Zealand expatriates in England Académie Julian alumni Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni {{NewZealand-painter-stub