Andrew Hamilton
Scotland / Aotearoa New Zealand / Australia / England, b.1822, d.1876
Rumbling Burn Valley, Lake Wanaka
- c. 1867
- Watercolour
- Gift of Roger Collins, 2025
- 510 x 573mm
- 2025/005
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Location: Sir Robertson and Lady Stewart Gallery
Tags: buildings (structures), lakes (bodies of water), landscapes (representations), mountains, natural landscapes, snow (precipitation)
In 1863 Edinburgh-born Andrew Hamilton arrived in Ōtautahi Christchurch, where he soon established a studio and began advocating for the city’s artistic future, notably by hosting a public forum on the need for a school of art and design – an idea realised almost two decades later. A keen traveller as well as an accomplished watercolourist, Hamilton captured in delicate, meticulous detail a newly established smallholding on the remote western shore of Lake Wānaka, dwarfed by unfamiliar snow-capped mountains.
(He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil, 2025)
