Margaret Fitchett

Hannah Margaret Edith Fitchett (married name Elmore, 16 June 1875 – 6 October 1958), sometimes called Daisy Fitchett, was a New Zealand artist.

Biography Fitchett was born at the parsonage in the Christchurch suburb of St Albans, the daughter of Alfred Fitchett, later Dean of Dunedin, and Theresa Margaret Fitchett. She studied at Dunedin Art School (now Otago Polytechnic), then traveled to Europe to study in Dresden under portrait painter Franz Kops. Following her time at the Académie Julian, Fitchett studied under the tuition of impressionist Louis Deschamps

Fitchett exhibited at the Otago Society of Arts between 1896 and 1908, and her work is represented in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. and lived in England until her death in Cuckfield, Sussex, on 6 October 1958. She had been predeceased by her husband in 1932.