Barry, James, active 1818-1846

Date: 1826 - 1849

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

By: Peek, G, active 1826; Barry, James, active 1818-1846

Reference: E-296-q-104-1

Description: Shows the chief in a short fabric skirt and feather cloak, holding a taiaha in his right hand. He has a mere tucked into his belt and wears three feathers in his hair. Probably derived from the painting of Tooi by James Barry (at ATL G-608) for the features of the head, but with the figure and clothing taken from the central figure of Hongi Hika in James Barry's ["The Rev Thomas Kendall and the Maori chiefs Hongi Hika and Waikato. 1820"], held at ATL G-618. Other Titles - Hongi Hika Extended Title - From: Church Missionary Quarterly Papers, No. 42, 1826, published in Church Missionary Quarterly papers 1816-1848. London, Church Missionary Society, 1849. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 180 x 110 mm

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.

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.

Date: 1820

By: Barry, James, active 1818-1846; Church Missionary Society; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: G-618

Description: Waikato on the left, Hongi Hika in the centre, both standing and wearing kiwi feather cloaks and flax skirts, both carrying mere. Hongi shown holding a taiaha as well. Thomas Kendall is seated on the right holding a book, probably the Bible 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 Artists' File for copy of CMS minutes resolving that Barry be asked to paint the portrait, minutes dated October 30 1820. Inscriptions: Verso - According to the catalogue card for this item, there is a note on the back. It is currently covered by the backing board. Possibly a historical note.; Recto - bottom right - J. Barry 1820 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 Tuhi and Titore. Painted in London during the visit of Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi leader, and Waikato, a younger Ngapuhi leader, accompanied by the Rev Thomas Kendall, C.M.S. missionary in New Zealand Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 720 x 920 mm Provenance: This portrait hung in the premises of the Church Missionary Society, London, from the time of its commissioning in 1820. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Society had come to believe that the European in the picture was Samuel Marsden, who had a good reputation in New Zealand (if not in Australia, where he was known as "the flogging parson"). Dr T. M. Hocken saw the painting, realised that it showed Kendall, who, for moral reasons, had been disowned by the C.M.S. in 1823. Hocken told New Zealand collector T.E.Donne, who informed the C.M.S. of Kendall's identity. Donne (Director of Tourist and Publicity) suggested he should solve their embarrassment, by taking the picture away, and they agreed. The painting hung in Tourist and Publicity, Wellington, for many years, until a new director in the late 1930s decided that the Library was a more appropriate home for the painting. (Verbal information from staff member Mr A. Murray-Oliver, June 1981) Processing information: Remedial treatment funded by Radha Sahar & Charles Bagnall; Alan, Jill and Nicolas Bagnall; through the Turnbull Endowment Trust, in 2021.