Ada May Plante: A Post-Impressionist Pioneer Early Life and Family Born: October 4, 1875, in Temuka, New Zealand. Her parents, Thomas Crowther Plante and Isabella Guthrie Plante, immigrated from England. Her father was a merchant. The family relocated to East Melbourne, Australia, in 1888. Plante attended Presbyterian Ladies' College in 1891 and later received formal training at the National Gallery School under Lindsay Berna…