James Elsbee

British / Aotearoa New Zealand, b.c. 1810, d.1885 (Photographer)

Thomas Selby Cousins

British / Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1840, d.1897

W. H. Wynn-Williams

  • 1864
  • oil on albumen photograph on board
  • Gifted by Robert Wynn-Williams, 2013
  • 215 x 185mm
  • 2013/069

Tags: beards, lawyers, men (male humans), people (agents), portraits

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Hand-painted photographs appeared briefly as a portraiture service in early Christchurch. Welsh-born lawyer William Henry Wynn-Williams settled in Canterbury in 1860 and became active in community life. Serving on the Canterbury Provincial Council from 1865 to 1875, he was also founding vice-president of the Canterbury Society of Arts in 1880 and MP for Heathcote in 1881–84.

(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)

Exhibition History

Andreas Cellarius Hypothesis Ptolemaica Sive Communis Planetarum Motus Per Eccentricos Et Epicyclos Demonstrans [The Ptolemaic Hypothesis or Common Representation Demonstrating the Planetary Motions through Eccentrics and Epicycles] 1661. Hand-coloured engraving. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, William A. Sutton bequest, 2000
Out of Time
Leo Bensemann St Olaf c.1937. Oil on canvas on board. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Lawrence Baigent / Robert Erwin Bequest 2003. Reproduced with permission
Bad Hair Day
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