Juliet Anna Owen Valpy Mackworth (23 August 1835 – 9 April 1911) was a New Zealand artist, and one of six children of
William Henry Valpy
William Henry Valpy (2 January 1793 – 25 September 1852) was a noted early settler of Dunedin, New Zealand. He is sometimes referred to locally as "The father of Saint Clair", as he was the first settler in the area now occupied by the subu ...
and
Caroline Valpy
Caroline Penelope Valpy (née Jeffreys; 1804 – 30 October 1884) was a British-New Zealand artist.
Biography
Caroline Valpy was born Caroline Penelope Jeffreys in Kanpur, India in 1804 to Reverend Richard Jeffreys, chaplain to the East India ...
(born Jeffreys), a pioneering family who arrived in
Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...
, New Zealand in January 1849 aboard the ''Ajax''.
She was born in Sikraul Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh, India
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, where her father was a judge.
She married William Mackworth at her parents' home The Forbury, Dunedin, on 22 September 1852, in a double wedding with her sister
Catherine
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria.
In the early Christ ...
, who was marrying
James Fulton. Three days after the wedding, their father unexpectedly died. Mackworth and Valpy had a daughter, Wilhelmina, but Mackworth died while she was an infant. Valpy married Bayly Pike, and had four children with him.
[
Her watercolour paintings survive in the ]Hocken Collections
Hocken Collections (, formerly the Hocken Library) is a research library, historical archive, and art gallery based in Dunedin, New Zealand. Its library collection, which is of national significance, is administered by the University of Otago.
T ...
.
References
External links
* Profile of Juliet Valpy in the Dunedin Family History Group newsletter, June 2014: http://www.dunedinfamilyhistory.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DFHG-2014-june-newsletter.pdf
Artists from Dunedin
Valpy-Fulton-Jeffreys family
1835 births
1911 deaths
New Zealand painters
19th-century New Zealand artists
New Zealand women painters
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