Beatrice Seddon New Zealand, Britain, 1889-1987
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About Beatrice Seddon
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1889, Beatrice Seddon (nee Wood) studied in Christchurch and from 1915 in London at St Johns Wood Art School. She returned to live in Wellington in the early 1920s. Best known as a watercolourist, painting landscape and floral subjects, she was a member of New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts with whom she exhibited from 1921. She also exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts and the Canterbury Society of Arts.
In our database, 70 works by Beatrice Seddon are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1986, of which 50 (71%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $1,933 for Lady with a Parasol sold by International Art Centre in October 2006. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Beatrice Seddon are held by the Museum Of New Zealand.
Beatrice Seddon is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 221
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
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