Katherine McLean Holmes

[1][2] Her sister Annie Julia White was also an artist, and her brother Allan Holmes was a cricketer and lawyer.

[1][2] She moved to Hawkestone Street in Wellington in 1892 where she socialised with Rudyard Kipling, and the Duke and Duchess of York.

[1] In 1893, she organised a bazaar in order to raise $100 to fund structural repairs to the New Zealand National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum.

[4] The collection of her paintings at the National Library of New Zealand comprises individual and group portraits.

[1][7] On her death in 1925, she left a painting of the Henry VII Chapel by Gertrude Keeling to Dunedin Public Art Gallery.