Juliet Valpy

Juliet Anna Owen Valpy Mackworth (23 August 1835 – 9 April 1911) was a New Zealand artist, and one of six children of William Henry Valpy and Caroline Valpy (born Jeffreys), a pioneering family who arrived in Dunedin, New Zealand in January 1849 aboard the Ajax.[1][2] She was born in Sikraul Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, where her father was a judge.

She married William Mackworth at her parents' home The Forbury, Dunedin, on 22 September 1852, in a double wedding with her sister Catherine, who was marrying James Fulton.[3][4] Three days after the wedding, their father unexpectedly died.[5] Mackworth and Valpy had a daughter, Wilhelmina, but Mackworth died while she was an infant. Valpy married Bayly Pike, and had four children with him.[2]

Her watercolour paintings survive in the Hocken Collections.[6]

  1. ^ "Ajax list". www.ngaiopress.com. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  2. ^ a b Macdonald, Charlotte, ed. (1991). The Book of New Zealand Women. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books. pp. 702–704.
  3. ^ Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Fulton, Catherine Henrietta Elliot". www.teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  4. ^ "Married". Wellington Independent. Vol. VIII, no. 732. 16 October 1852. p. 3. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Dunedin, Saturday, October 2, 1852". Otago Witness. No. 72. 2 October 1852. p. 2. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  6. ^ "Valpy, Juliet A. O. First four houses (wattle & daub)". Hocken Snapshop. Retrieved 25 October 2015.