Ellen von Meyern explained

Ellen von Meyern
Birth Date:	26 December 1881
Death Date:	30 August 1912

Ellen von Meyern (1882-1912) was a New Zealand artist who is remembered for her portraits of Maori people.

Life

Meyern was the daughter of Arthur von Meyern. Around 1895, she moved from Dunedin to Auckland, where she studied portraiture at the Elam School of Art. Her work includes portraits of her sister Blanche, with whom she shared a studio, and of music and theatre celebrities. Examples of her paintings can be seen in the National Museum of New Zealand.^{[1] [2]} Von Meyern's Maori paintings are, like many by Gottfried Lindauer and Frances Hodgkins, associated with symbolist portraits of demure females with or without a child.^[3]

Her portrait of Prime Minister Richard Seddon is in the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.^[4]

External links

• Examples of works by Ellen von Meyern from the Australian Art Sales Digest

Notes and References

1. Web site: VON MEYERN, Ellen d.1912?. Victoria University of Wellington: Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook. 9 September 2017 .
2. Book: Bell, Leonard. The Maori in European Art: A Survey of the Representation of the Maori by European Artists from the Time of Captain Cook to the Present Day. 1980. REED. 116. 978-0-589-01281-6.
3. Book: Leonard Bell. Colonial Constructs: European Images of the Maori, 1840-1914. 1 October 2013. Auckland University Press. 978-1-86940-640-0. 367–.
4. News: Portrait of Richard John Seddon. Auckland Art Gallery. 2017-09-10. en.