Clara Vera Eichelbaum (née Chapman; 28 June 1885 – 21 September 1953) was a New Zealand painter who exhibited as Vera Chapman and Vera Eichelbaum.[2] Her portrait of her father, Sir Frederick Chapman, is in the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Wellington, and other artworks are in the Hocken Collections in Dunedin.[3][4][5] Her papers are held in the permanent collection of the National Library of New Zealand.[6]
Vera Chapman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Clara Vera Chapman 28 June 1885 |
| Died | 21 September 1953 (aged 68) Wellington, New Zealand |
| Spouse | Siegfried Eichelbaum (m. 1915; died 1952) |
| Relatives | Frederick Chapman (father) Henry Samuel Chapman (grandfather) Martin Chapman (uncle) Langer Owen (brother-in-law) |
Biography
Chapman was born in Dunedin on 28 June 1885 to Clara Jane Chapman (née Cook) and Frederick Revans Chapman.[7][8] She was the second of five children; she had two brothers and two sisters.[9] Chapman attended private schools in Dunedin, including Overn Lodge,[10] until the family moved to Wellington due to her father's transfer to the capital.[3] In 1911, she went to Paris and studied art there, returning to Wellington in 1914.[3][5] She taught art at Chilton Saint James School.[3][5]
Chapman exhibited with the Otago Society of Arts,[11][12] the South Canterbury Art Society,[13] the Canterbury Society of Arts[14][15] and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.[16][17][18][19][20]
Chapman had an interest in history and recorded her father's biography, covering both his time in England and New Zealand.[21]
Personal life
On 12 October 1915, at her father's house in Wellington, Chapman married lawyer and literary editor Siegfried Eichelbaum (1884–1952).[22][23][24] Following her marriage, she exhibited under the name Vera Eichelbaum.[3][19][20] Her last exhibition was in 1929.[25] She died at her home in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon on 21 September 1953,[26] and her ashes were buried in Karori Cemetery, Wellington.[27]
Notes
References
- Spiller, Peter (1992). The Chapman Legal Family. Wellington: Victoria University Press. ISBN 9780864732279. Retrieved 7 January 2020.