Beatrice Seddon
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Beatrice Ann Seddon (née Wood; 1889–1987) was a New Zealand artist. Her works are held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Seddon was born in 1889 in Christchurch, New Zealand, to William Wood and Mary Theresa Wood.
Education
Seddon was educated at Rangi Ruru Girls' School, attended a finishing school in England, and then returned to Christchurch to attend art school under the tutelage of Sydney Thompson and Margaret Stoddart.[1] During World War I Seddon served as a volunteer ambulance driver at Codford on Salisbury Plain, and this role included caring for recuperating officers. After contracting measles at Codford, Seddon went on holiday to St Ives, Cornwall where she met and befriended New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins, and while in St Ives, Hodgkins painted a portrait of Seddon (commissioned by her), titled Portrait of Miss Beatrice Wood, 1918.[1]
