Charlotte Youmans

Charlotte Beatrice Youmans (14 April 1869 – 12 June 1957) was a New Zealand painter of landscapes, interiors, and floral still lifes.

Biography

Youmans was born in Wellington on 14 April 1869.[1] The artist Arthur Gordon Tovey was her nephew.[2]

She was exhibiting by the mid 1890s and continued to do so through the 1920s.[3] She exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Auckland Society of Arts, and elsewhere.[3] Some of her work is in the collection of the National Library of New Zealand, including a watercolor of the interior of what is now known as Old St. Paul's in Wellington.[4][5]

Youmans died on 12 June 1957,[6] and her ashes were buried at Karori Cemetery.[7]

References

1. "Births". Wellington Independent. 20 April 1869. p. 2. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
2. "Story: Tovey, Arthur Gordon". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
3. Platts, Una. Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists. Avon Fine Prints Ltd, 1980, p. 264.
4. "Youmans, Charlotte Beatrice, b.1869: Interior of St Pauls Cathedral, Wellington. 1896". Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand website.
5. "Youmans, Charlotte Beatrice b 1869: [Farmyard scene, Hutt Valley? 1901"]. Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand website.
6. "Cemeteries search: cremation". Wellington City Council. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
7. "Cemeteries search: burial". Wellington City Council. Retrieved 5 September 2017.