AUCKLAND ARTIST
DEATH IN TUNISIA
Madame Rene Vernon, known in earlier years as Beatrix Dobie, a New Zealand painter of horses and landscape, whose death has occurred in Tunisia, was a daughter of the late Mr. H. B. Dobie, of Epsom. She was born at Whangarei in ISB7. Some years before the last war she went to London and studied painting. Later, while painting in Europe, she married Captain Rene Vernon, of the French Army, and made her home in Tunisia. Examples of Madame Vernon's work are in the Auckland Art Gallery at Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. She is survived by her husband and a son. Her mother and a number of relatives reside in Auckland.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 98, 27 April 1944, Page 3
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