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Owen Merton

Owen Heathcoate Merton (1887 - 1931) was active/lived in New York / New Zealand.  Owen Merton is known for Sea-landscape, still life.

Owen Heathcote Grierson Merton was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1887, a member of a family active in the Anglican church, in education and in the musical life of the community.  He was educated at Christ's College, where he had his first formal art lessons, and continued those studies at the Canterbury College School of Art (1903) and in London (1905-6).   During a return visit to New Zealand in 1907-9, he held solo exhibitions in Wellington and Christchurch, and participated in art society shows.  He met Dorothy Kate Richmond, the doyenne of the Wellington art scene, and her nephew Esmond Atkinson, who was also a painter.  Merton re-enrolled briefly at the Canterbury College School of Art in 1908.   In 1909 he returned to London, where he studied with the Flemish-born painter Charles van Havermaet in 1909-10, and made extended working visits to the Netherlands, Cornwall and Brittany.  On this last occasion he participated in a sketching classwww.childsgallery.com/artist.php   ...  [Displaying 1032 of 4208 characters.]  Artist bio

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