Caroline Valpy
{{Short description|New Zealand artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Caroline Valpy
| birth_name = Caroline Penelope Jeffreys
| birth_date = {{birth year|1804}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1884|10|30|1804|df=y}}
| death_place = Mornington, Dunedin, New Zealand
| children = Ellen Jeffreys, Catherine Fulton, Arabella Valpy, Juliet Valpy, William Henry Valpy Jr. and Caroline Hensley
| spouse = William Henry Valpy
}}
Caroline Penelope Valpy (née Jeffreys; 1804 – 30 October 1884) was a British-New Zealand artist.
Biography
Caroline Valpy{{refn|group=note|name=first|Erroneously called Mrs Catherine Valpy in Platts (1980){{Cite web |title=Jeffreys, Caroline |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22413530 |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}}} was born Caroline Penelope Jeffreys in Kanpur, India in 1804 to Reverend Richard Jeffreys, chaplain to the East India Company.{{Cite book |last=Platts |first=Una |title=Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide and Handbook |publisher=Avon Fine Prints Limited |year=1980 |pages=239}}{{Cite web |title=Caroline Valpy |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Caroline-Valpy/6000000036029490822 |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=geni_family_tree |date=July 1804 |language=en-US}} She was sister to Reverend Charles Jeffreys.{{Cite web |title=Jeffreys, Caroline |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22413530 |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=natlib.govt.nz}} Valpy married William Henry Valpy in India. They had six children: Ellen Jeffreys, Catherine Fulton, Arabella Valpy, Juliet Valpy, William Henry Valpy, Jr. and Caroline Hensley.{{Cite web |title=Ajax list |url=http://www.ngaiopress.com/ajaxlist.htm |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=www.ngaiopress.com}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28180678 |title=The Book of New Zealand women = Ko kui ma te kaupapa |date=1991 |publisher=Bridget Williams Books |others=Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold, B. R. Williams |isbn=0-908912-04-8 |location=Wellington, N.Z. |pages=702 |oclc=28180678}}
They moved to England in 1837, before coming to Dunedin, New Zealand aboard the Ajax in 1849. {{Cite web |last= |first= |title=William Valpy |url=http://www.toituosm.com/collections/smith-gallery/wall-1/william-valpy |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=Toitū Otago Settlers Museum Official Website |language=en-nz}} They lived at Forbury, Dunedin, close to the current suburban road, Valpy Street.
Valpy and her daughters, especially Ellen, were known to be talented artists.{{Cite news |last=Entwisle |first=Rosemary |date=1990 |title=Jeffreys, Ellen Penelope |language=en |work=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1j2/jeffreys-ellen-penelope |access-date=17 February 2023}} They are described as having filled numerous notebooks with drawings and watercolours.{{Cite web |last=Brenssell |first=Angela |date=February 1990 |title=Salute to Otago Artists |url=https://otagosettlers.org.nz/publications/newsletters/view/february-1990- |access-date=17 April 2023 |website=otagosettlers.org.nz |page=3}} Valpy's artwork is represented in the Otago Early Settlers' Association, Dunedin. Valpy's artwork, Early Dunedin 1851, is also recorded as being reproduced in a 1948 calendar for July/August 1948.{{Cite web |title=Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd: A century of service [the contribution of Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd to the Centennial of the Province of Otago]. 1948. |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/38446970?search%5Bi%5D%5Bname_authority_id%5D=-128193&search%5Bpath%5D=items |access-date=17 April 2023 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}
She died on 30 October 1884 in Mornington and is buried in Dunedin Southern Cemetery with her daughter Arabella Valpy and granddaughter, Jessie Mackworth.{{Cite news |date=31 October 1884 |title=Death |pages=2 |work=Evening Star |issue=6737 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18841031.2.4}}{{Cite web |last=Council |first=Dunedin City |title=Cemeteries search – Dunedin City Council |url=https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/cemeteries-search?recordid=99621&type=Burial |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=www.dunedin.govt.nz |language=en}}
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Category:Valpy–Fulton–Jeffreys family
Category:British people in colonial India
Category:Immigrants to New Zealand
Category:19th-century New Zealand artists
Category:Burials at Dunedin Southern Cemetery
Category:19th-century New Zealand women artists
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