Katherine McLean Holmes

Katherine McLean Holmes (1849–1925) was a New Zealand painter whose work is held in the permanent collection of the National Library of New Zealand. Early life Holmes was born in Geelong, Australia, the third daughter of New Zealander Matthew Holmes of Otago. Her sister Annie Julia White was also an artist, and her brother Allan Holmes was a cricketer and lawyer. Career She exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts every year from 1883 to 1908. She worked with W. M. Hodgkins and exhibited with the Otago Art Society from 1878 and served on its council during 1886–87. She moved to Hawkestone Street in Wellington in 1892 where she socialised with Rudyard Kipling, and the Duke and Duchess of York.