Kinder, John 1819-1903 :Old Church, Remuera [1857?]

View of St Mark's chapel, Remuera, on the left, with a fence dividing it from a small house, surrounded by bush. Mt Eden is in the background.

Suggested date based on similarity to other views dated 1857. See Dunn, Michael. John Kinder : Paintings and Photographs (Auckland, 1985), p. 120 for further information. Michael Dunn suggests that "The fact that this watercolour was once in the possession of the Reverend J.W.Stack suggests that Kinder painted versions of the subject to give to friends and interested clergy who had associations with the church."

The first St Mark's, designed by Frederick Thatcher, was a small wooden chapel. It was pre-fabricated at St John's College in 1847 and replaced with a larger structure in 1859. It was shifted to Bassett Road and demolished in 1925. Kinder was minister of St Mark's from 1860-1863 and helped to pay for the building of the new church in 1859.

Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J. Kinder; Recto - bottom right - Old Church Remuera [both inscriptions in brushpoint, in the artist's hand]

cf almost identical views at A-113-030 and A-210-017

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Watercolour 155 x 242 mm

Provenance: Originally owned by Rev. J.W.Stack.

Transfers: Removed from fMS sequence: Stack, J.W. Papers and pictures and transferred to Drawings and Prints, 1970s or early 1980s..