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New Zealand painter (1869–1957)
Charlotte Beatrice Youmans (14 April 1869 – 12 June 1957) was a New Zealand painter of landscapes, interiors, and floral still lifes.
Biography
Youmans was born in
Wellington on 14 April 1869.
[1]
She was exhibiting by the mid 1890s and continued to do so through the 1920s.
[2] She exhibited at the
New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts , Auckland Society of Arts, and elsewhere.
[2] Some of her work is in the collection of the
National Library of New Zealand , including a watercolor of the interior of what is now known as
Old St. Paul's in Wellington.
[3]
[4]
Youmans died on 12 June 1957 and her ashes were buried at
Karori Cemetery .
[5]
The artist
Arthur Gordon Tovey was her nephew.
[6] She was among the signatories to New Zealand's
1893 women's suffrage petition .
[7]
References
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"Births" .
The Wellington Independent . Vol. XXIV, no. 2852. 20 April 1869. p. 2.
Archived from the original on 21 March 2024. Retrieved 5 September 2017 – via
Papers Past .
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b
Platts, Una (1980).
Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide and Handbook (PDF) . Christchurch, New Zealand: Avon Fine Prints Ltd. p. 264.
OCLC
7736615 .
Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2024 – via
Christchurch City Libraries .
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"Image: Youmans, Charlotte Beatrice, b.1869 :Interior of St Pauls Cathedral, Wellington. 1896" .
National Library of New Zealand .
Archived from the original on 19 June 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2024 .
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"Image: Youmans, Charlotte Beatrice b 1869 :[Farmyard scene, Hutt Valley?] 1901" .
National Library of New Zealand .
Archived from the original on 21 March 2024. Retrieved 20 March 2024 .
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"Cemeteries - Details - Last name: YOUMANS | First name: CHARLOTTE BEATRICE" .
Wellington City Council . 12 July 2012. Archived from
the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017 .
^ Henderson, Carol (2000).
"Tovey, Arthur Gordon" .
Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand .
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography .
Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2024 .
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"Women's Suffrage Petition: Charlotte Youmans" .
New Zealand History (NZ History) .
Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2024 .