Bessie Acland
{{Short description|New Zealand woman artist}}
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Bessie Acland
| image = Elizabeth Bessie Acland.jpg
| caption = Acland in 1890
| other_names = Bessie Dunn
| birth_name = Elizabeth Dyke Acland
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1870|09|23|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|09|13|1870|09|23|df=y}}
| death_place = San Diego, California, United States
| birth_place = Mount Peel Station, South Canterbury, New Zealand
| parents = John Acland and Emily Acland
| relations = {{unbulleted list|Bishop Harper (grandfather)|Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (grandfather)|Hugh Acland (brother)|Walter Empson (brother-in-law)|Jack Acland (nephew)|Leonard Harper (uncle)|Henry Harper (uncle)|Walter Harper (uncle)|George Harper (uncle)|Eric Harper (cousin)|Arthur Paul Harper (cousin)|John Ernest Harper (cousin)}}
}}
Elizabeth Dyke Dunn ({{née|Acland}}; 23 September 1870 – 13 September 1959) was a New Zealand artist. For the last 38 years of her life, she lived in San Diego, California.
Biography
File:Holnicote, Mount Peel.jpg
Dunn was born Elizabeth Dyke Acland on 23 September 1870 at Holnicote House, the homestead of Mount Peel Station inland from Peel Forest in South Canterbury, New Zealand.{{cite news |title=Births |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18700928.2.8 |access-date=28 January 2023 |work=The Press |volume=XVII |issue=2318 |date=28 September 1870 |page=2}} She was the tenth child of the Honourable John Barton Arundel Acland and Emily Harper, who was also a painter.{{Cite web |title=Acland, Elizabeth Dyke (Elizabeth Dyke) (Mrs Bessie Dunn) 1870–1960 {{!}} NZETC |url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-PlaNine-t1-body-d1-d4.html |access-date=13 January 2023 |website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz}}{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/burkespeeragebar0001unse |title=Burke's Peerage & baronetage |date=1999 |publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) |isbn=978-2-940085-02-6 |pages=24–25}} In 1896, she married Charles Arthur Dunn, a painter, son of Reverend James Dunn and Angelina Anne Dyke Troyte, at the Church of the Holy Innocents that belongs to Mount Peel Station.{{Cite news |date=21 May 1896 |title=Marriage |pages=22 |work=New Zealand Mail |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18960521.2.89}}{{NZHPT|1976|Church of the Holy Innocents
|28 January 2023}} They had two children. They spent time at Mount Peel Station in South Canterbury, before moving to live in California in 1921.{{Cite book |last=Platts |first=Una |url=https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/heritage/publications/art/platts-19thc/platts-19thcartists.pdf |title=Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide and Handbook |publisher=Avon Fine Prints LTD |year=1980}}{{Cite web |title=DUNN Elizabeth Dyke – Mt Peel/California – Widow |url=https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE68860367 |access-date=14 January 2023 |website=ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz}}
She was exhibited as Bessie Acland at the Canterbury Society of Arts from 1893 to 1896.{{Cite web |title=Acland, Bessie |url=https://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/32/bessie-acland |access-date=13 January 2023 |website=findnzartists.org.nz}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Dunn, Bessie Dyke |url=https://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/4402/bessie-dyke-dunn |access-date=13 January 2023 |website=findnzartists.org.nz}}{{Cite book |last1=Kay |first1=Robin |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/media/uploads/2017_12/PortraitOfACentury.pdf |title=Portrait of a century; the history of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts 1882–1982 |last2=Eden |first2=Tony |publisher=Milkwood Press |year=1983 |pages=202}} Several watercolour landscapes are in the Hocken Collection, the University of Otago.{{Cite web |title=Hocken Heritage Collections |url=https://hakena.otago.ac.nz/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/COLLECTIONS/WEB_COLL_DET_REP/SISN%203166?sessionsearch |access-date=13 January 2023 |website=hakena.otago.ac.nz}}
She died in San Diego, California, on 13 September 1959, where she lived from 1921 until her death."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.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=McGahey |first1=Kate |title=The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists: Painters, Printmakers, Sculptors |date=2000 |publisher=Gilt Edge Publishing}}
External links
- [https://www.aasd.com.au/index.cfm/list-all-works/?concat=DunnBessi Mt Cook by Bessie Dunn]
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Category:People from the Canterbury Region