Lawford, John E, active 1980-1991

Date: 1864

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Lawford, John E, active 1980-1991

Reference: C-126-005

Description: Shows harbour scene form Commercial Bay looking towards the North Shore and Rangitoto Island. The prison hulk Marion is to the right of a sailing ship on the harbour and there are houses in the foreground, with the house on the left marked as belonging to Mr Jones, probably Mr Humphrey Jones Attribution on stylistic grounds. Sails on ships were painted in by John Lawford, Auckland art dealer, before he sold the painting to Dr Hogg. He based his work on the sailing ship in Charles Heaphy's watercolour "Bream Head", owned by the Library.. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Auckland harbour Commercial Bay (Beach Rd) 1864; Recto - bottom left - Auckland harbour Oct 64; Recto - bottom centre - Mr Jones' house; Recto - bottom centre - Hulk with Maori prisoners taken at Rangiriri Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 239 x 485 mm (sight) Provenance: Purchased by Neville Hogg from John Lawford, Auckland art dealer, 1980s?

Date: 1864

By: Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868; Lawford, John E, active 1980-1991; Kettle, Ferdinand von Tempsky, 1883-1951; Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum

Reference: A-159-047

Description: Maori warrior in centre, wearing dogskin cloak, ammunition pouches and holding club, addressing a group of seated Maori men and women. A Maori woman in a white blouse and blue skirt, holding a rifle is standing to his right. The seated Maori are clad in flax cloaks and a red blanket in one case and are holding axes, tomahawks and guns. The meeting is taking place in a clearing in dense native bush, with tree-ferns, nikau, flax, ferns and cabbage trees. In the background is a hill topped by the palisades of a pa. The central warrior's expression and gestures and the expressions of the listeners suggest that he is urging them successfully to fight. Exhibited at Waikato Art Museum and the Alexander Turnbull Library, 1978-79. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Title of work comes from a letter written by the artist to his wife Emilia, in June 1864, while staying at Ngahinapouri on the Waipa River. See G.F. von Tempsky, artist and adventurer by Rose Young (Martinborough, 1981) cat no 86, pp 114, 207, 268-9 and 327. Inscriptions: Verso - [former backing board, now removed but contents copied- notes about photography, exhibition, thymol treatment and alternative title] Maori warrior addressing a group by G.F. Von Tempsky Maori War Period [paint]ing lent by F.V.Kettle. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour 177 x 254 mm Provenance: By descent from the artist to his grandson F von Tempsky Kettle; on loan to Hawkes Bay Art Gallery, 1960s-80s?; sold Dunbar Sloane auction 7 Nov 1990 (lot 30) to John Lawford, Auckland for $20,000

Date: 1840 - 1854

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Lawford, John E, active 1980-1991

Reference: A-255-021

Description: Shows two Maori women wearing flax cloaks, one a rain cape, the other a woven tag cloak with fringed neckline Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Other Titles - Girls of Orakau, Waipa Inscriptions: Verso - top left - 25p; Verso - top centre - Girls of Orakau, Waipa [in faint pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour over pencil 302 x 193 mm