Rachel Susan Christabel Buckland (1873–1946) was a New Zealander artist. Her watercolour paintings are included in the collection of

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Biography

Buckland was born in

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in Otago, New Zealand. Her father was the politician John Buckland. She attended a private school in

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where she met and became friends with Fanny Wimperis. The pair painted together in Dunedin and the surrounding countryside. In about 1893 the family moved to Taieri Lake Station and Buckland continued to paint watercolours there.

Personal life

In 1901 she married a farmer, Lionel Orbell in Winchester. The couple lived at

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for some years, then moved to Fairfield Farm at Pukeuri. One of their children, Geoffrey Orbell, was a noted naturalist.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Buckland, Rachel 1873 births 1946 deaths 20th-century New Zealand artists Rachel Fairburn–Newman family