Foy Brothers
active 1872-1907
Ana Reupene Whetuki and child
- c. 1872-1878
- Carte-de-visite albumen photograph
- Purchased, 2007
- 2007/012
Tags: Maori (culture or style), cloaks, double portraits, families, frames (ornament areas), infants, monochrome, mothers, people (agents), portraits, text (layout feature), women (female humans), youth
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![Ana Reupene Whetuki and Child (Ngāti Maru) [also known as Heeni Hirini and Heeni Phillips]](/media/cache/ac/08/ac0802469b0d0293ba8197d01736bfc0.jpg)
Gottfried Lindauer Ana Reupene Whetuki and Child (Ngāti Maru) [also known as Heeni Hirini and Heeni Phillips]
Ana Reupene Whetuki from the Ngāti Maru iwi (tribe) was well-known in the Thames goldfield district in the Coromandel. Also known as Heeni Hirini and Heeni Phillips, she married the Ngāti Maru rangatira (chief) Reupene Whetuki and lived at Manaia, where some of her descendants still live today.Gottfried Lindauer based this portrait on a striking 1870s photographic studio portrait by the Foy Brothers of Thames. Lindauer first visited Thames in 1874, shortly after arriving in Aotearoa New Zealand from Bohemia (present day Czech Republic). He painted at least twelve versions of this portrait between 1878 and 1920.
(Te Wheke, 2020)