Beatrice Partridge
{{Short description|English-born New Zealand painter}}
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Beatrice Partridge (1866–1963) was an English-born New Zealand painter. Her work is held in the permanent collection of Christchurch Art Gallery.{{Cite web|url= https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/69-504/beatrice-partridge/flora-of-new-zealand |title=Flora Of New Zealand |website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz |access-date=2020-03-30}}
Biography
Partridge was born in Devon, England and migrated to New Zealand with her family around 1877.{{Cite book|last=Platts|first=Una|title=Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists|publisher=Avon Fine Prints|year=1979|isbn=|location=Christchurch, New Zealand|pages=190}} The family lived in Timaru, in the South Island, for a time. In the 1880s, Partridge and her sister Florence moved to Christchurch to attend Canterbury College School of Art.{{Cite web |url= https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/71-10/beatrice-partridge/taramakau-river |title=Taramakau River |website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz |access-date=2020-03-30}}
In 1887, Partridge became a working member of the Canterbury Society of Arts. She also exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and held her last exhibition at the age of 96.{{Cite web |url= https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22676503 |title=A painting by Beatrice Partridge of a vase of flowers, at The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington |date=1957-01-01 |website=A painting by Beatrice Partridge of a... {{!}} Items {{!}} National Library of New Zealand {{!}} National Library of New Zealand|language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}} Her paintings feature landscapes and still lifes.
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Category:19th-century New Zealand painters