Minnie Izett
Biography
Mary McNeill (known as Minnie) was born in 1862 in Dunedin NZ, her father was Captain Alexander McNeill.
Minnie married Lieutenant Leonard Henry Jones 1 October 1884. Unfortunately he died a couple of years later on 9 April 1886 in Whanganui.
The inaugural meeting to discuss forming an Arts Society in Whanganui was held on July 1, 1901, in Minnie Jones' studio. In August, Jones became the first Secretary of 'The Wanganui Society of Arts and Crafts', a position she held until ill health forced her resignation 23 years later. By then she was the last remaining member of the original committee.
Minnie remarried to Andrew Pattle Izett (known as Pattle Izett b.1869 Australia, d.1951 Auckland) in Whanganui on 21 August 1903, so was then known as Minnie Izett. The paintings in the Sarjeant collection are all signed Minnie Izett.
In 1903 when Edith Collier enrolled at the Wanganui Technical School to study art she was taught by Ivy Copeland and Minnie Izett.
Minnie was a founding member of the Sarjeant Art Gallery Committee, formed in Oct 1912 and including the then Mayor, Tom Williams, an auctioneer, two councillors and five others including Ellen Sarjeant and Minnie, as well as local barrister and solicitor Louis Cohen who later became the first Honorary Curator of the Sarjeant. The Gallery continued to be administered by this Committee, which was in turn subject to the Council. In May 1920 the committee consisted of the new Mayor, three councillors, Ellen Neame, two artists including Minnie and Charles Hay-Campbell and two community representatives (editor of the Wanganui Herald Mr Webb-Jones, and Louis Cohen). The committee met at irregular intervals and dealt with building issues as well as purchase and hanging of works.
Minnie died in 1924 in Whanganui.
It is possible that Pattle Izett was a war cartoonist, see https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23081559
Minnie married Lieutenant Leonard Henry Jones 1 October 1884. Unfortunately he died a couple of years later on 9 April 1886 in Whanganui.
The inaugural meeting to discuss forming an Arts Society in Whanganui was held on July 1, 1901, in Minnie Jones' studio. In August, Jones became the first Secretary of 'The Wanganui Society of Arts and Crafts', a position she held until ill health forced her resignation 23 years later. By then she was the last remaining member of the original committee.
Minnie remarried to Andrew Pattle Izett (known as Pattle Izett b.1869 Australia, d.1951 Auckland) in Whanganui on 21 August 1903, so was then known as Minnie Izett. The paintings in the Sarjeant collection are all signed Minnie Izett.
In 1903 when Edith Collier enrolled at the Wanganui Technical School to study art she was taught by Ivy Copeland and Minnie Izett.
Minnie was a founding member of the Sarjeant Art Gallery Committee, formed in Oct 1912 and including the then Mayor, Tom Williams, an auctioneer, two councillors and five others including Ellen Sarjeant and Minnie, as well as local barrister and solicitor Louis Cohen who later became the first Honorary Curator of the Sarjeant. The Gallery continued to be administered by this Committee, which was in turn subject to the Council. In May 1920 the committee consisted of the new Mayor, three councillors, Ellen Neame, two artists including Minnie and Charles Hay-Campbell and two community representatives (editor of the Wanganui Herald Mr Webb-Jones, and Louis Cohen). The committee met at irregular intervals and dealt with building issues as well as purchase and hanging of works.
Minnie died in 1924 in Whanganui.
It is possible that Pattle Izett was a war cartoonist, see https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23081559
b.1862, d.1924
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