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BECKWITH HAZEN, Elizabeth
- Born
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1839
- Died
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1935
- Biography synopsis
- Elizabeth Hazen (nee Beckwith) was an amateur artist who worked in several media including watercolour, oil, and crayon. Her works include nature scenes in Fredericton and watercolours of New Brunswick wildflowers. She worked closely with Dr. Loring W. Bailey (1839 - 1925), professor of botany at the University of New Brunswick, who provided her with botanical names. In the 1870s she showed her paintings and drawings at the Provincial Exhibition in the "Amateur Fine Arts" category. After her death, over 120 watercolours of New Brunswick wildflowers were given to the University of New Brunswick as a part of her Loyalist family's papers by her son Sir John Douglas Hazen. Most of the works are dated between 1867 and 1873. Her work has often been included in exhibitions on nineteenth-century New Brunswick art.
- Media used
- Oil painting
- Watercolour
- File & Archive locations
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- University of New Brunswick - Archives and Special Collections Department
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Wildflower Studies by Elizabeth Beckwith Hazen Fredericton, N.B.: Fredericton National Exhibition Centre, 1987.
- "The Beckwiths of New Brunswick." The Loyalist Collection Fredericton: University of New Brunswick Libraries, 10 Oct. 2018
http://loyalist.lib.unb.ca/atlantic-loyalist-connections/beckwiths-new-brunswick - Boland, Todd. Wildflowers of New Brunswick Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Newfoundland: Boulder Publications, 2015
- Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
- Huneault, Kristina. I'm Not Myself at All: Women, Art, and Subjectivity in Canada Montreal; Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018
