IMAGE
[Barry, James] :Tooi, a New Zealand chief. Painted and presented by James Barry Esq[ui]re
- Date
- October 1818
- By
- Barry, James, active 1818-1846; Donne, Thomas Edward, 1860-1945; Church Missionary Society
- Reference
- G-608
- Description
Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Tuai, of the Ngapuhi tribe, taken to England in H.M.S. Kangaroo in 1817 at the request of Samuel Marsden. Painting commissioned by the Church Missionary Society
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
Other Titles - Te Tuhi Tooai Tuai
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - on wooden plaque affixed to base of frame: title as inscribed above inblack paint on gold-painted board
This portrait forms a pair with Barry's portrait of Titore ("Teeterree, a New Zealand chief..." G-626)
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 Titore and Rev Thomas Kendall with Māori chiefs Hongi and Waikato, 1820.
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: Negative 1/2-C-023293 and transparency dct-03932 show the work after its 1998 conservation
- 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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