JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 12 March 2024 - 10:00 AM start

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Margaret Olrog Stoddart (1865-1934) 'Near the Hermitage Mt Cook' 1927,

Estimate: $6,000 - $10,000

Lot Details

watercolour, signed. 464 x 429mm. Note: Margaret Olrog Stoddart was born at Diamond Harbour (named by her father), Canterbury, New Zealand. Margaret came from a prosperous and cultured family. Her father devoted much of his time to acclimatisation and natural history. Margaret shared his keen interest in landscape and flora. In 1876 she was taken to visit relatives in Edinburgh where she briefly attended a ladies' college. After returning to New Zealand she enrolled at the Canterbury College School of Art in its opening year, 1882, and was awarded a second-grade full certificate in 1889. During this period she became a member of the Palette Club, an association of artists who were committed to working from nature. A keen tramper, she made numerous trips around Banks Peninsula and the Southern Alps, sketching the landscape and collecting specimens for studies of native plants.