Lake landscape with figures by a hut on the shore

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Attributed to Albin Martin (1812/13 -1888)
Lake landscape with figures by a hut on the shore
with indistinct inscription and with inscription 'South Island' (twice) on the stretcher
oil on canvas
19½ x 32¼in. (49.5 x 82cm.)

來源

William Bromley-Davenport, Baginton Hall.

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拍品專文

Albin Martin, artist, farmer and politician, set sail for New Zealand in 1851 on board the Cashmere with his wife Jemima and their six children, arriving in Auckland on 19th October. After a crippling bout of gout cured by 10 days at the hot springs at Waiwera, he was soon up and about and making his first sketches of New Zealand. Having bought 95 acres on the Pakuranga Stream, he settled into the business of fencing and working the land, delighting in a landscape which he thought finer than anything he had seen before. From 1861-1868 he represented Franklin on the Auckland Provincial Council, and in 1864 he was appointed to the Public Buildings Commission. In 1869 he was one of the founding members of the Auckland Society of Artists, the first of its kind in New Zealand, regularly exhibiting at the society's biannual shows in the 1870's. After the failure of the Auckland Society of Artists in 1880 Martin became the treasurer and later vice president of the Auckland Society of Arts established later that year and was again a frequent exhibitor. In the 1880's Martin's health deteriorated; eventually the farm was sold and the family moved to Ellerslie where Martin later died in 1888. (see Albin Martin, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.)