IMAGE
[Barry, James] :Teeterree, a New Zealand chief. Painted and presented by James Barry Esq[ui]re
- Date
- October 1818
- By
- Barry, James, active 1818-1846; Church Missionary Society; Donne, Thomas Edward, 1860-1945
- Reference
- G-626
- Description
Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Titeri, a Maori student at the Parramatta Seminary (New South Wales) for 18 months before being taken to England in H.M.S. Kangaroo in 1817, with Tuai, at the request of Samuel Marsden. Painting commissioned by the Church Missionary Society
Other Titles - Teeherree Titeri Titere
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - on wooden plaque affixed to base of frame: title as inscribed above inblack paint on gold-painted board
James Barry was a lay member of the C.M.S., and treasurer of its Durham Office, 1833-1846. He was commissioned by the Society to paint this portrait and the portraits of Tuai and Rev Thomas Kendall with Māori chiefs Hongi and Waikato, 1820. See Binney, Judith. The legacy of guilt ... (920 KEN) p.63; see also Proceedings of the C.M.S., 1818- (Serials stack, PRO). See also Artists Biographies Index for details of correspondence about this and other work by James Barry. See also Ormond Wilson's Kororareka, p. 40-41, 44-47 for futher information about Titeri and his visit to England
This portrait forms a pair with Barry's portrait of Te Tuai ("Tooi a New Zealand chief ..." G-608)
Quantity: 1 oil(s).
Physical Description: Oil on board 305 x 254 mm in original frame
Provenance: This portrait hung in the premises of the Church Missionary Society, London, from the time of its commissioning in 1818. Probably acquired by New Zealand collector T.E. Donne.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Neg. 1/2-C-023294 and transparency DCT-03934 show the work after its 1998 treatment
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 oil(s), Works of art, Oil paintings, Portraits, Oil on board 305 x 254 mm in original frame, Orientation: Vertical image
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