AUCKLAND: A HISTORY IN PAINTINGS

Jonathan Grant Galleries

Auckland

A History inPaintings ‘No fiction enters into it. Only a single ship, a few tents and break-wind huts, and a handful of the Saxon race. They have planted their feet in a far distant land and in a little time to what a great end this small beginning shall grow.’

John Logan Campbell, Poenamo, 1840

Illustrated front cover: Charles Blomfield (Britain 1848 – 1926 New Zealand) Auckland Harbour from Mt Eden, 1920 Oil on board, 30.5 x 43 cm Signed lower right & dated 1920. Inscribed with title verso

Revd. John Kinder (Britain 1819 – 1903 New Zealand) The Church of England Grammar School, Parnell, from the site of Master’s House Watercolour over pencil, 24.5 x 35 cm Inscribed in pen: ‘Mt Hobson, Glen Hobson, Mt St John, Grammar School, Mt Eden, One Tree Hill, Epsom Rd’

Sir Henry James Warre KCB (British 1819 – 1898) Commercial Bay with North Head and Rangitoto in the distance viewed from Courthouse Hill Watercolour, 22 x 30 cm Inscribed lower left: ‘Auckland Harbour NZ’

John Barr Clarke Hoyte (New Zealand 1835 – 1913 Australia) Judges Bay (Taurarua) and St Stephen’s Chapel, circa 1860 Watercolour, 24 x 38 cm

E. B. Kelly (New Zealand 19th Century) The Departure, Queen Street Wharf, 1889 Watercolour, 33 x 45 cm Signed, dated & inscribed 1889 lower left

E. B. Kelly (New Zealand 19th Century) Summer Afternoon, Queen Street and the intersection with Swanson Street, 1889 Watercolour, 48 x 76 cm Signed, dated and inscribed 1889 lower left

Frank Wright (Britain 1860 – 1923 New Zealand) Scows on the Hard, Cox’s Creek Watercolour, 23 x 34 cm Signed lower left

Albert Edward Aldis (Britain 1870 – 1921 Australia) Auckland Harbour from Ponsonby Oil on board, 11 x 20 cm Signed with monogram lower right Inscribed with title and signed verso

Capt. Richard E Baker (Britain 1928 – 2004 New Zealand) Auckland Regatta, 1923 Oil on canvas, 50 x 76 cm Signed lower right

E. Armitage (New Zealand 20th Century) HMS Achilles on her return from the Battle of The River Plate, February 1940 Oil on canvas, 32 x 91 cm Signed lower left, dated 1940

Peggy Spicer (New Zealand 1908 – 1984) Waiheke, Horse Shoe Bay Watercolour, 28 x 37 cm Signed lower right

Peggy Spicer (New Zealand 1908 – 1984) Auckland from Waiheke Watercolour, 28 x 41 cm Signed lower right

Ella Spicer (New Zealand 1876 – 1956) The Ferry Building, 1925 Watercolour, 23 x 27 cm Signed and dated 1925

Mark Venables (New Zealand 1917 – 2003) One Tree Hill from Clonbern Rd, Remuera Watercolour, 39 x 49 cm Signed with initials

Mark Venables (New Zealand 1917 – 2003) View of Rangitoto 1964 Watercolour, 33 x 48 cm Signed, inscribed, dated 1964

George Baloghy (New Zealand b. 1950) Grafton Bridge III Oil on canvas, 50 x 83.5 cm Signed and dated 2003 lower right

Ken Knight (Australia b. 1956) Rain Over Rangitoto Oil on board, 12.5 x 30 cm Signed lower right

Ken Knight, (Australia b. 1956) Auckland City, a Rainy Day Oil on board, 29 x 76 cm Signed lower right

Ken Knight (Australia b. 1956) Low Tide at Takapuna Beach Oil on board, 27 x 46 cm Signed lower right

Paul Hooker (New Zealand 20th Century) Still Morning, The Viaduct Basin, Auckland 1996 Oil on canvas, 36 x 57 cm Signed lower right

Josephine Davis (New Zealand b. 1959) Super Yachts, Viaduct Basin Watercolour, 28 x 41 cm Signed lower right

Charles Decimus Barraud (New Zealand 1822 – 1897) View of the Harbour of Auckland from the Road to Mount Eden, 1874 Original chromolithograph, 26 x 37 cm Published by Sampson Low, London 1877

Jonathan Grant Galleries

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