Elsie Maud White
Elsie Maud White was a New Zealand artist.
Biography
Elise Maud White was born in 1889 in Rangiora 1889, as the daughter of Thomas Boyd. She married Robert O. White in 1914.;
3 sons. Educated west Christchurch and Richmond schools; First member NZ Society of Miniaturists; exhibitor Royal Academy, London (first New Zealander to exhibit a miniature); exhibited New York Society of Miniature Painters, Christchurch, Australian Art Societies; first diploma for miniatures, New Zealand Centennial Exhibition 1940; painted miniatures of lady Newall and Queen Mother accepted by Her Majesty; also Dame Sybil Thorndyke, purchased by the Christchurch City Council for the permanent collection in MacDougal Art Gallery." "I lived in a upstairs flat on her house as a student in 1964-5. She was still painting but still life rather than portraits. I have half a dozen minitures of birds nest, bees, a branch of a quince tree with leaves and quinces as well as a portrait (not minature) of my wife which she painted 1970. I think that by the time I knew her her eysight was past its best." 566
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