Places

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-023

Description: View from the south end of Oriental Bay looking north toward Wellington, showing rowing boat, boat-sheds, cows in field, houses, Oriental Parade and Oriental Terrace The large red house on the hill, upper left, was known as 'Thomas's Folly' and was built of Australian hardwood by Sir Godfrey John Thomas, half-brother to Sir George Grey, then later owned by Alfred Maurice Lewis of Thompson Lewis. The wood used for this house was said to have been left over from the Government Buildings in Lambton Quay. The large white house, also on the left, but lower, in Wilkinson Street (leading to Grass Street), was first owned by a Mr Wilkinson. The single-storey house on the corner of Hay Street was owned by a Mr Laurence Arcus. Painting has been trimmed. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [C.A]ubrey Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 249 x 499 mm on sheet 306 x 543 mm

Date: 1879

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Smith, Dennison Urban, -1892

Reference: C-126-010

Description: Shows the settlement at Bravo Island in Paterson Inlet, with the farm of Dennison Urban ("Yankee") Smith at extreme left, and the house of the Portuguese whaler Manuel Gomez in the centre with three figures in the doorway. There is cleared land in foreground, cows at pasture, a boatshed (to the left of Smith's beached boat - the "Bravo"), a cowshed at the extreme right, a sandspit at the extreme right beside the inlet in the right background. Two clay cliffs on the far bank are reflected in the water. The details listed are taken from John Hall-Jones "Stewart Island explored" 1994 - ATL has at NZ&P 993.1 HAL 1994. 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. Painting made by Aubrey in return for hospitality of the Smith family. For more information about "Yankee" Smith, see AT 3/1/2, 1 July 1976. Other Titles - River settlement Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Aubrey 1879 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 340 x 515 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at auction by Dennison Smith, a direct descendant of Yankee Smith, at Devereux and Culley's auction rooms, Mt Eden, in 1983. Prior to that, the work had been in the family of Yankee Smith on Stewart Island. The painting had been given to Yankee Smith by the artist in return for hospitality

Date: 1905

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-163-008

Description: Shows a view of Milford Sound from the shore looking towards Mitre Peak. On a low spit in the foreground, two figures have anchored a small sailboat and are tending a campfire. A steam sails on the sound in the middle distance. The higher peaks are snow-capped, indicating a winter season. In the close foreground several seagulls stand on the shore or wheel above it. The artist was probably resident in Auckland by 1905, the date at which this work was painted. He may have worked from a photograph of Milford Sound Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 263 x 375 mm.