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'''Violet Bowring''' (née '''Nelson'''; 29 August 1890 – 21 January 1980) was a New Zealand artist who exhibited widely in both New Zealand and Australia.<ref>{{Cite book |title=1890 Register Ref.15507 |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Douglas |first=Barbara |date=1980 |title=A Tribute to Violet Bowring |url=https://journals.jcu.edu.au/linq/article/view/889 |journal=Literature in North Queensland |volume=8 |issue=3: Women's Issue |pages=53–74 |issn=0817-458X}}</ref> She was versatile in many media, including pastels, oils, watercolours and pencil, a successful [[miniaturist]] and from an early age made and exhibited jewellery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 September 1909 |title=Art Competitions |pages=3 |work=[[Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]] |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19090923.2.25 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref>
'''Violet Bowring''' (née '''Nelson'''; 29 August 1890 – 21 January 1980) was a New Zealand artist who exhibited widely in both New Zealand and Australia.<ref>{{Cite book |title=1890 Register Ref.15507 |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Douglas |first=Barbara |date=1980 |title=A Tribute to Violet Bowring |url=https://journals.jcu.edu.au/linq/article/view/889 |journal=Literature in North Queensland |volume=8 |issue=3: Women's Issue |pages=53–74 |issn=0817-458X}}</ref> She was versatile in many media, including pastels, oils, watercolours and pencil, a successful [[Portrait miniature|miniaturist]] and from an early age made and exhibited jewellery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 September 1909 |title=Art Competitions |pages=3 |work=[[Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]] |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19090923.2.25 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref>


She is best known for her portrait of her one-time neighbour [[Banjo Paterson]], now hanging in Sydney’s [[Australian Club]], and used as the cover illustration of a book ''The Best of Banjo Paterson'', compiled by Walter Stone, published in 1977.<ref name=":2" />
She is best known for her portrait of her one-time neighbour [[Banjo Paterson]], now hanging in Sydney’s [[Australian Club]], and used as the cover illustration of a book ''The Best of Banjo Paterson'', compiled by Walter Stone, published in 1977.<ref name=":2" />
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==Early life==
==Early life==


Violet Nelson was born in [[Christchurch]] on 29 August 1890, the second youngest of child of Horatio and Ada Nelson. Horatio was founder of the successful nation-wide tea importing business Nelson Moate & Co. Ltd. Her siblings were Ida, Dick, Jack, Norman and Royden.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 October 1923 |title=Obituary |edition=Issue 17890 |volume=LIX |pages=10 |work=[[The Press]]|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19231010.2.71|via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> 
Violet Nelson was born in [[Christchurch]] on 29 August 1890, the second youngest child of Horatio and Ada Nelson. Horatio was founder of the successful nation-wide tea importing business Nelson Moate & Co. Ltd. Her siblings were Ida, Thomas Horatio, Jack, Norman and Royden Nelson MC.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 October 1923 |title=Obituary |edition=Issue 17890 |volume=LIX |pages=10 |work=[[The Press]]|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19231010.2.71|via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> 


==Career==
==Career==


The family moved to [[Wellington]] and Violet attended Pipitea Private School in Wellington<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 December 1903 |title=Presentation of Prizes |volume=LXVI |pages=2 |work=[[Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]] |issue=145 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19031216.2.3 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> and later the Technical College. She was successful in early competitions in freelance drawing and studied art under [[Maud Winifred Sherwood]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2 December 1937 |title=Colony of NZ Women Painters in Sydney |pages=26 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17436499|via =[[Trove]]}}</ref>
The family moved to [[Wellington]] and Violet attended [[Pipitea, New Zealand|Pipitea]] Private School in Wellington<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 December 1903 |title=Presentation of Prizes |volume=LXVI |pages=2 |work=[[Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]] |issue=145 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19031216.2.3 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> and later the Technical College. She was successful in early competitions in freelance drawing and studied art under [[Maud Winifred Sherwood]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2 December 1937 |title=Colony of NZ Women Painters in Sydney |pages=26 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17436499|via =[[Trove]]}}</ref>


In 1915 and 1916 both she and the artist Walter Bowring (who she later married) contributed to the ''Countess of Liverpool's Gift Book'', a collection of short stories, poems and essays on New Zealand's involvement in the First World War, including political cartoons and reproductions of work by New Zealand artists.<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 December 1915 |title=The Countess of Liverpool's Gift Book |volume=9 |pages=6 |work=[[The Dominion (Wellington)|The Dominion]] |issue=2654 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19151228.2.26.1 |access-date=16 July 2023 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=28 December 1915 |title=New Zealand's Gift Book |volume=XC |pages=8 |work=[[Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]] |issue=154 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19151228.2.54 |access-date=16 July 2023 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref>
In 1915 and 1916 both she and the artist [[Walter Armiger Bowring|Walter Bowring]] (who she later married) contributed to the ''Countess of Liverpool's Gift Book'', a collection of short stories, poems and essays on New Zealand's involvement in the First World War, including political cartoons and reproductions of work by New Zealand artists.<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 December 1915 |title=The Countess of Liverpool's Gift Book |volume=9 |pages=6 |work=[[The Dominion (Wellington)|The Dominion]] |issue=2654 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19151228.2.26.1 |access-date=16 July 2023 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=28 December 1915 |title=New Zealand's Gift Book |volume=XC |pages=8 |work=[[Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]] |issue=154 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19151228.2.54 |access-date=16 July 2023 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> In 1917, they also contributed to the ''NZ Freelance Christmas Annual'',<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 December 1917 |title=New Zealand Free Lance Christmas Annual |volume=XVII |pages=15 |work=Free Lance |issue=907 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19171207.2.30 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> Described as "56 pages of lively, well-drawn cartoons, amusing stories and sparkling topical verse".<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 December 1917 |title=Untitled |volume=XCIV |pages=8 |work=[[Evening Post]] |issue=139 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19171210.2.58 |access-date=16 July 2023 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> They exhibited widely together at the [[New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts]], Wellington, in [[Whanganui|Wanganui]], the [[Canterbury Society of Arts]] and later together in [[Sydney]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 May 1923 |title=Academy's Sketch Exhibition |volume=CV |pages=3 |work=[[Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]] |issue=109|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230509.2.14|via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> Nelson left New Zealand in 1920 to further her art studies at the [[Chelsea Art School]] and London School of Art. It was the London of [[Virginia Woolf]], she recalled as "mad, crazy, happy days".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kingsley-Smith |first=C. |date=22 July 1920 |title=The Social World |pages=24 |work=New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review |issue=1578 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZISDR19200722.2.33 |access-date=18 July 2023 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref><ref name=":2" />


In April 1925 Nelson became Walter Bowring’s second wife. In May 1925 they moved to [[Sydney]], the same year as he entered a portrait of her and his self-portrait in the [[Art Gallery of New South Wales|Art Gallery's]] Archibald Prize.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize 1925 |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1925/ |access-date=15 July 2023 |website=Art Gallery NSW}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=30 April 1925 |title="Women's Corner" |work=[[The Press]] |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19250430.2.7 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> Violet Bowring joined the Society of Women Painters and the Women's Industrial Arts Society (a vice president in 1935) and was a regular exhibitor there and at the [[Royal Art Society of New South Wales|Royal Art Society]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 October 1935 |title="Practical Women Painters' Aim Higher Standards" |pages=12 |work=The Sun |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/231171776 |access-date=16 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=14 August 1935 |title="Refinement in Art" |pages=48 |work=[[The Sydney Mail]] |url= |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=11 May 1935 |title=Art and Industry |pages=31 |work=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/4608981 |access-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> The couple became prominent in the Sydney art scene, exhibiting alongside the likes of [[Tom Roberts]], [[Grace Cossington Smith]] and [[Thea Proctor|Thea Procter]], [[Roland Wakelin]],<ref name=":2" /> the latter Bowring's contemporary from the Wellington Technical School and both were students of [[Antonio Dattilo Rubbo]]. Walter Bowring died in Sydney aged 57 in 1931.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Walter Armiger Bowring – Person, overview and related information |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/266 |access-date=13 July 2023 |website=[[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]]}}</ref>
In 1917 they also contrbuted to the ''NZ Freelance Christmas Annual'',<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 December 1917 |title=New Zealand Free Lance Christmas Annual |volume=XVII |pages=15 |work=Free Lance |issue=907 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19171207.2.30 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref> described as "56 pages of lively, well-drawn cartoons, amusing stories and sparkling topical verse".<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 December 1917 |title=Untitled |volume=XCIV |pages=8 |work=[[Evening Post]] |issue=139 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19171210.2.58 |access-date=16 July 2023 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref>


It was a time when New Zealand-born women artists like Bowring, her former tutor Maud Sherwood and [[Adele Younghusband]] were gaining popularity and Bowring's portraits were well received. The press noted many of "the outstanding Australian artists turned out to be New Zealanders, New Zealand only recognising talent after being provided in another country."<ref name=":1" /> During this time she had many commissions for portraits, especially of children, and of men leaving for active service in [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 June 1940 |title=Miniature Painter makes Necklaces |pages=7 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17674453 |access-date=15 July 2023 |via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> Her portrait of the daughter of the tobacco manufacturer, newspaper proprietor, parliamentarian and philanthropist, [[Hugh Denison]] (1865–1940) was the first four colour print reproduced on the cover of the ''Australian Women’s Day'',1941.<ref name=":2" />
They exhibited widely together at the [[New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts]], Wellington, in [[Whanganui|Wanganui]], the [[Canterbury Society of Arts]] and later together in [[Sydney]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 May 1923 |title=Academy's Sketch Exhibition |volume=CV |pages=3 |work=[[Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]] |issue=109|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230509.2.14|via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref>


Nelson left New Zealand in 1920 to further her art studies at the [[Chelsea Art School]] and London School of Art. It was the London of [[Virginia Woolf]], she recalled as "mad, crazy, happy days". <ref>{{Cite news |last=Kingsley-Smith |first=C. |date=22 July 1920 |title=The Social World |pages=24 |work=New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review |issue=1578 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZISDR19200722.2.33 |access-date=18 July 2023 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref><ref name=":2" />
Bowring moved to [[Townsville]] in 1950, taught art for a time and lived with a friend, Jessie MacQueen. Both wrote to the ''Townsville Bulletin'' deploring the lack of an Art Gallery.  When the first Townsville Arts Society was formed in 1953, Bowring became a member of the provisional committee.<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 October 1953 |title=Townsville forms first Art Society |pages=2 |work=[[Townsville Daily Bulletin]] |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63212514 |access-date=16 July 2023}}</ref> Unfortunately, a large fire in Townsville in 1960 destroyed much of her work and more were damaged during [[Cyclone Althea]] in 1971.<ref name=":0" />


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Bowring died in Townsville on 21 January 1980 aged 89.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Douglas |first=Barbara |date=1979 |title="Violet Bowring (1890–1980): Noted portrait painter" |journal=Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries |volume=4 (4) |pages=84–87}}</ref>
In April 1925 Nelson became Walter Bowring’s second wife and in May 1925 they moved to [[Sydney]], the same year as he entered a portrait of her and his self-portrait in the [[Art Gallery of New South Wales|Art Gallery's]] Archibald Prize.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize 1925 |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1925/ |access-date=15 July 2023 |website=Art Gallery NSW}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=30 April 1925 |title="Women's Corner" |work=[[The Press]] |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19250430.2.7 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref>


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==References==
Violet Bowring joined the Society of Women Painters and the Women's Industrial Arts Society (a vice president in 1935) and was a regular exhibitor there and at the [[Royal Art Society of New South Wales|Royal Art Society]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 October 1935 |title="Practical Women Painters' Aim Higher Standards" |pages=12 |work=The Sun |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/231171776 |access-date=16 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=14 August 1935 |title="Refinement in Art" |pages=48 |work=[[The Sydney Mail]] |url= |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=11 May 1935 |title=Art and Industry |pages=31 |work=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/4608981 |access-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

The couple became prominent in the Sydney art scene, exhibiting alongside the likes of [[Tom Roberts]], [[Grace Cossington Smith]] and [[Thea Proctor|Thea Procter]], [[Roland Wakelin]],<ref name=":2" /> the latter Bowring's contemporary from the Wellington Technical School and both were students of [[Antonio Dattilo Rubbo]]. Walter Bowring died in Sydney aged 57 in 1931.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Walter Armiger Bowring – Person, overview and related information |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/266 |access-date=13 July 2023 |website=[[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]]}}</ref>

It was a time when New Zealand-born women artists like Bowring, her former tutor Maud Sherwood and [[Adele Younghusband]] were gaining popularity and Bowring's portraits were well received. The press noted many of "the outstanding Australian artists turned out to be New Zealanders, New Zealand only recognising talent after being provided in another country." <ref name=":1" />

During this time she had many commissions for portraits, especially of children, and of men leaving for active service in [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 June 1940 |title=Miniature Painter makes Necklaces |pages=7 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17674453 |access-date=15 July 2023 |via=[[Trove]]}}</ref>

Her portrait of the daughter of the tobacco manufacturer, newspaper proprietor, parliamentarian and philanthropist, [[Hugh Denison]] (1865–1940) was the first four colour print reproduced on the cover of the ''Australian Women’s Day'',1941.<ref name=":2" />

Bowring moved to [[Townsville]] in 1950, taught art for a time and lived with a friend, Jessie MacQueen. Both wrote to the ''Townsville Bulletin'' deploring the lack of an Art Gallery.  When the first Townsville Arts Society was formed in 1953, Bowring became a member of the provisional committee.<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 October 1953 |title=Townsville forms first Art Society |pages=2 |work=[[Townsville Daily Bulletin]] |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63212514 |access-date=16 July 2023}}</ref>

Unfortunately, a large fire in Townsville in 1960 destroyed much of her work and more were damaged during [[Cyclone Althea]] in 1971.<ref name=":0" />

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Bowring died in Townsville on 21 January 1980 aged 90.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Douglas |first=Barbara |date=1979 |title="Violet Bowring (1890–1980): Noted portrait painter" |journal=Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries |volume=4 (4) |pages=84–87}}</ref>

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==References==
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== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
* Violet Bowring – works and ephemera, in the Delamonthe Special Collection, Eddie Koiki Thabo Library, [[James Cook University|James Cook University,]] Townsville
* Violet Bowring – works and ephemera, in the Delamonthe Special Collection, Eddie Koiki Mabo Library, [[James Cook University]], Townsville


==External links==
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Violet Bowring
Bowring, c. 1918
Born
Violet Nelson

(1890-08-29)29 August 1890
Christchurch, New Zealand
Died21 January 1980(1980-01-21) (aged 89)
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Occupations
  • Painter
  • miniaturist
Spouse
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(m. 1925; died 1931)​

Violet Bowring (née Nelson; 29 August 1890 – 21 January 1980) was a New Zealand artist who exhibited widely in both New Zealand and Australia.[1][2] She was versatile in many media, including pastels, oils, watercolours and pencil, a successful miniaturist and from an early age made and exhibited jewellery.[3]

She is best known for her portrait of her one-time neighbour Banjo Paterson, now hanging in Sydney’s Australian Club, and used as the cover illustration of a book The Best of Banjo Paterson, compiled by Walter Stone, published in 1977.[2]

Early life

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Violet Nelson was born in Christchurch on 29 August 1890, the second youngest child of Horatio and Ada Nelson. Horatio was founder of the successful nation-wide tea importing business Nelson Moate & Co. Ltd. Her siblings were Ida, Thomas Horatio, Jack, Norman and Royden Nelson MC.[4] 

Career

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The family moved to Wellington and Violet attended Pipitea Private School in Wellington[5] and later the Technical College. She was successful in early competitions in freelance drawing and studied art under Maud Winifred Sherwood.[6]

In 1915 and 1916 both she and the artist Walter Bowring (who she later married) contributed to the Countess of Liverpool's Gift Book, a collection of short stories, poems and essays on New Zealand's involvement in the First World War, including political cartoons and reproductions of work by New Zealand artists.[7][8] In 1917, they also contributed to the NZ Freelance Christmas Annual,[9] Described as "56 pages of lively, well-drawn cartoons, amusing stories and sparkling topical verse".[10] They exhibited widely together at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, in Wanganui, the Canterbury Society of Arts and later together in Sydney.[11] Nelson left New Zealand in 1920 to further her art studies at the Chelsea Art School and London School of Art. It was the London of Virginia Woolf, she recalled as "mad, crazy, happy days".[12][2]

In April 1925 Nelson became Walter Bowring’s second wife. In May 1925 they moved to Sydney, the same year as he entered a portrait of her and his self-portrait in the Art Gallery's Archibald Prize.[2][13][14] Violet Bowring joined the Society of Women Painters and the Women's Industrial Arts Society (a vice president in 1935) and was a regular exhibitor there and at the Royal Art Society.[15][16][17] The couple became prominent in the Sydney art scene, exhibiting alongside the likes of Tom Roberts, Grace Cossington Smith and Thea Procter, Roland Wakelin,[2] the latter Bowring's contemporary from the Wellington Technical School and both were students of Antonio Dattilo Rubbo. Walter Bowring died in Sydney aged 57 in 1931.[18]

It was a time when New Zealand-born women artists like Bowring, her former tutor Maud Sherwood and Adele Younghusband were gaining popularity and Bowring's portraits were well received. The press noted many of "the outstanding Australian artists turned out to be New Zealanders, New Zealand only recognising talent after being provided in another country."[6] During this time she had many commissions for portraits, especially of children, and of men leaving for active service in World War II.[19] Her portrait of the daughter of the tobacco manufacturer, newspaper proprietor, parliamentarian and philanthropist, Hugh Denison (1865–1940) was the first four colour print reproduced on the cover of the Australian Women’s Day,1941.[2]

Bowring moved to Townsville in 1950, taught art for a time and lived with a friend, Jessie MacQueen. Both wrote to the Townsville Bulletin deploring the lack of an Art Gallery.  When the first Townsville Arts Society was formed in 1953, Bowring became a member of the provisional committee.[20] Unfortunately, a large fire in Townsville in 1960 destroyed much of her work and more were damaged during Cyclone Althea in 1971.[21]

Bowring died in Townsville on 21 January 1980 aged 89.[21]

References

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  1. ^ 1890 Register Ref.15507. Department of Internal Affairs.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Douglas, Barbara (1980). "A Tribute to Violet Bowring". Literature in North Queensland. 8 (3: Women's Issue): 53–74. ISSN 0817-458X.
  3. ^ "Art Competitions". Evening Post. 23 September 1909. p. 3 – via Papers Past.
  4. ^ "Obituary". The Press. Vol. LIX (Issue 17890 ed.). 10 October 1923. p. 10 – via Papers Past.
  5. ^ "Presentation of Prizes". Evening Post. Vol. LXVI, no. 145. 16 December 1903. p. 2 – via Papers Past.
  6. ^ a b "Colony of NZ Women Painters in Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 December 1937. p. 26 – via Trove.
  7. ^ "The Countess of Liverpool's Gift Book". The Dominion. Vol. 9, no. 2654. 28 December 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 16 July 2023 – via Papers Past.
  8. ^ "New Zealand's Gift Book". Evening Post. Vol. XC, no. 154. 28 December 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 16 July 2023 – via Papers Past.
  9. ^ "New Zealand Free Lance Christmas Annual". Free Lance. Vol. XVII, no. 907. 7 December 1917. p. 15 – via Papers Past.
  10. ^ "Untitled". Evening Post. Vol. XCIV, no. 139. 10 December 1917. p. 8. Retrieved 16 July 2023 – via Papers Past.
  11. ^ "Academy's Sketch Exhibition". Evening Post. Vol. CV, no. 109. 9 May 1923. p. 3 – via Papers Past.
  12. ^ Kingsley-Smith, C. (22 July 1920). "The Social World". New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review. No. 1578. p. 24. Retrieved 18 July 2023 – via Papers Past.
  13. ^ "Archibald Prize 1925". Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  14. ^ ""Women's Corner"". The Press. 30 April 1925 – via Papers Past.
  15. ^ ""Practical Women Painters' Aim Higher Standards"". The Sun. 25 October 1935. p. 12. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  16. ^ ""Refinement in Art"". The Sydney Mail. 14 August 1935. p. 48.
  17. ^ "Art and Industry". The Australian Women's Weekly. 11 May 1935. p. 31. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  18. ^ "Walter Armiger Bowring – Person, overview and related information". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  19. ^ "Miniature Painter makes Necklaces". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 June 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 15 July 2023 – via Trove.
  20. ^ "Townsville forms first Art Society". Townsville Daily Bulletin. 13 October 1953. p. 2. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  21. ^ a b Douglas, Barbara (1979). ""Violet Bowring (1890–1980): Noted portrait painter"". Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries. 4 (4): 84–87.

Further reading

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  • Violet Bowring – works and ephemera, in the Delamonthe Special Collection, Eddie Koiki Mabo Library, James Cook University, Townsville
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