Nellie Rosyth Christmas b. 22 July 1876

Also known as Mrs. F. C. Stockwell
  • Artist (Painter)
Nellie Christmas was a plein air painter in WA; taught by her brother Ernest W. Christmas. All works are signed "Nellie Christmas." After marriage to Fred Stockwell in 1905 she changed her name. No works by Mrs. F. C. Stockwell are known. Nellie had four children, Bill, Bettina, Aileen, and Bunny (Robert) with Fred Stockwell, B.Sc. who rose to Assistant Director of Technical Education for Western Australia 1917-1925.
Tags: landcape, plein air, naturalism
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Painter, was born in Kadina, South Australia. She lived in Kadina, and in the 1890s in Coolgardie (Western Australia). The John J. Christmas family moved to Western Australia about 1889, provisioning miners as they had done in Kadina SA and Broken Hill NSW.

Nellie Christmas was a plein air painter in WA; taught by her brother Ernest W. Christmas. All works are signed “Nellie Christmas.” After marriage in 1905 to Fred Stockwell, who had arrived from SA in 1902, she changed her name. No works by Mrs. F. C. Stockwell are known. Nellie had four children, Bill, Bettina, Aileen, and Bunny (Robert) with Fred Stockwell, B.Sc. who rose to Assistant Director of Technical Education for Western Australia 1917-1925.

Nellie Christmas was the sibling of Ernest William Christmas and Ethel Christmas (Mrs. H. F. Hobart, Bunbury WA. All three artists had a talent for landscape, detail and dramatic scenery. Nellie is known to have painted in Western Australia in the 1890s as well as in New Zealand which she visited with her siblings in 1898.

Her work was exhibited in The Colonial Eye Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1979. Her works are held in the Janet Holmes a Court Collection, Perth as well as in private collections in Perth and Sydney.

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2025

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  • Janet Holmes a Court Collection, Perth, WA (collected in)