Bessie Acland
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Elizabeth Dyke Dunn | |
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 Elizabeth Dyke Acland in 1890 | |
| Born | Elizabeth Dyke Acland 13 September 1959 |
| Died | 13 September 1959 (aged 88) |
| Other names | Bessie Dunn |
Elizabeth "Bessie" Dyke Dunn (née Acland) was a New Zealand artist.
Biography
Dunn was born Elizabeth Dyke Acland in Canterbury, New Zealand. She was the tenth child of the Honourable John Barton Arundel Acland and Emily Harper, who was also a painter.[1][2] In 1896, she married Charles Arthur Dunn, a painter, son of Reverend James Dunn and Angelina Anne Dyke Troyte.[1][3][2] They had two children.[2] They spent time at Mount Peel Station in South Canterbury, before moving to live in California in 1921.[1][4][5]
She was exhibited as Bessie Acland at the Canterbury Society of Arts from 1893 to 1896.[6] Following her marriage, she exhibited as Bessie Dunn, at Canterbury Society of Arts in 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1901 to 1904.[7][8] Several watercolour landscapes are in the Hocken Collection, the University of Otago.[9]
She died in San Diego, CA on 13 September 1959, where she lived from 1921 until her death.[1][10]
References
- ^ a b c d "Acland, Elizabeth Dyke (Elizabeth Dyke) (Mrs Bessie Dunn) 1870–1960 | NZETC". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- ^ a b c Burke's Peerage & baronetage. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books). 1999. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-2-940085-02-6.
- ^ "Marriage". New Zealand Mail. 21 May 1896. p. 22.
- ^ Platts, Una (1980). Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide and Handbook (PDF). Avon Fine Prints LTD.
- ^ "DUNN Elizabeth Dyke – Mt Peel/California – Widow". ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
- ^ "Acland, Bessie". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- ^ "Dunn, Bessie Dyke". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- ^ Kay, Robin; Eden, Tony (1983). Portrait of a century; the history of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts 1882–1982 (PDF). Milkwood Press. p. 202.
- ^ "Hocken Heritage Collections". hakena.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- ^ "California Death Index, 1940–1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPWK-PDJ : 26 November 2014), Elizabeth Dyke Dunn, 13 September 1959; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.