Catherine Wright Burcher

Catherine Wright Burcher (née Kerry; 1 July 1849 – 19 May 1921) was a New Zealand artist.

Biography Burcher was born Catherine Wright Kerry in Bebington, Cheshire, United Kingdom, to Rubens James Kerry. On 9 May 1871 in Wallasey, Cheshire, she married Albert Edward Burcher, and they arrived in Auckland, New Zealand in 1878.

She was trained by a fellow of the Royal Art Society before she left the United Kingdom.

Burcher was a member of the Auckland Art Society from its foundation and exhibited with them multiple times from 1881 to 1895. She also exhibited with the Society of Artists in 1879 and the Colonial and Indian exhibition in London in 1886;

During World War I, she made a copy of Edmund Blair Leighton's In Time of Peril, which is in the Auckland City Art Gallery (now Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki) collection. Sources are divided on how much Burcher's copy sold for to benefit the Red Cross: Platts states it was £2000, whereas her obituary suggests it was £800, both, however, were well above its estimated value of £500.

She died in Auckland on 19 May 1921.