Margaret Fitchett
New Zealand artist
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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 Christchurch suburb of St Albans, the daughter of Alfred Fitchett, later Dean of Dunedin, and Theresa Margaret Fitchett.[1][2] She studied at Dunedin Art School (now Otago Polytechnic), then traveled to Europe to study in Dresden under portrait painter Franz Kops.[3] Fitchett also studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, Rue de Berri, where her professors included William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier.[3] Following her time at the Académie Julian, Fitchett studied under the tuition of impressionist Louis Deschamps[3]
When Fitchett returned to Dunedin, she took pupils for a time before returning to Europe to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, under genre painter Viggo Johannsen and miniaturist Laura Sarauw.[3][4]
Fitchett exhibited at the Otago Society of Arts between 1896 and 1908, and her work is represented in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.[4]
Fitchett married metallurgical engineer Frank Elmore at St Mary Abbots in Kensington, London, on 12 December 1908,[5][6] and lived in England until her death in Cuckfield, Sussex, on 6 October 1958.[7] She had been predeceased by her husband in 1932.[5]
