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Edward Ashworth 'The Residence of Colonel Robert H. Wynyard...'
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$15,000 - $20,000
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191 The Collection of John Elliot Lawford | Part 1: Live Auction (Lot 1-94)
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Edward Ashworth
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Edward Ashworth
The Residence of Colonel Robert H. Wynyard, Emily Place, Official Bay, Auckland (1848)
ink and wash
signed lower left
200 x 268 mm
A charming study showing Old St Paul’s, family members in the newly established garden, an officer in regimentals very likely the Colonel standing mid veranda with two ladies on his right. The house was built in 1843 for Felton Mathew the first Surveyor General and sold by him in September 1847 for 2,000 pounds to Colonel Wynyard who commanded the British forces in New Zealand until his departure in 1858. A sketch ‘Auckland from Official Bay, 1849’ by Wynyard shows the house as viewed in the Ashworth’s watercolour.
‘The gallant Colonel has almost become a colonist having purchased for a grand sum one of the prettiest cottages in Official Bay surrounded by a garden full of English flowers’.
The house was extensively renovated to accommodate the Colonel’s growing family and ‘hospitable habits’. A painting by Major Frederick. R. Stack shows Colonel Wynyard and his family as a group in front of the entrance, circa 1860. Known as the ‘Nutshell’ the house became an important centre of 1850s Auckland social life.
Early Auckland subjects by Edward Ashworth are extremely rare.
Ref: Platts. Una. The Lively Capital, Auckland, 1840 - 1865, 1971, (plate 65, p 144)
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
The Residence of Colonel Robert H. Wynyard, Emily Place, Official Bay, Auckland (1848)
ink and wash
signed lower left
200 x 268 mm
A charming study showing Old St Paul’s, family members in the newly established garden, an officer in regimentals very likely the Colonel standing mid veranda with two ladies on his right. The house was built in 1843 for Felton Mathew the first Surveyor General and sold by him in September 1847 for 2,000 pounds to Colonel Wynyard who commanded the British forces in New Zealand until his departure in 1858. A sketch ‘Auckland from Official Bay, 1849’ by Wynyard shows the house as viewed in the Ashworth’s watercolour.
‘The gallant Colonel has almost become a colonist having purchased for a grand sum one of the prettiest cottages in Official Bay surrounded by a garden full of English flowers’.
The house was extensively renovated to accommodate the Colonel’s growing family and ‘hospitable habits’. A painting by Major Frederick. R. Stack shows Colonel Wynyard and his family as a group in front of the entrance, circa 1860. Known as the ‘Nutshell’ the house became an important centre of 1850s Auckland social life.
Early Auckland subjects by Edward Ashworth are extremely rare.
Ref: Platts. Una. The Lively Capital, Auckland, 1840 - 1865, 1971, (plate 65, p 144)
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
