Beatrix Dobie

Beatrix Charlotte Dobie (1887–1944) was a New Zealand landscape artist, most known for her illustrations in the work of conservationist Herbert Guthrie Smith.

Her father was Herbert Boucher Dobbie, New Zealand amateur botanist and photographer, and her aunt was Mary Dobie.

In 1911 she moved to London to study at the Slade School of Art, under Henry Tonks,[1] and his Assistant in Drawing, Australian-born Derwent Lees.

[4] After the war she returned to live in New Zealand, exhibiting her work at the Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery.

During this period she met Herbert Guthrie-Smith and formed the connection that would lead to her providing the illustrations for his book Tutira: the story of a New Zealand sheep station.