Cook Strait, New Zealand

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Cook Strait, New Zealand

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Nicholas Chevalier is a rather glamorous figure in nineteenth-century New Zealand painting. Born in St Petersburg of a Swiss father and a Russian mother, he had travelled widely in Europe and studied at the Academy of Munich and at the Royal Academy, London, before arriving in Dunedin on his first visit from Melbourne with his wife Caroline in 1865. On commission from the Otago and Canterbury Provincial Councils, he made a large number of pencil sketches and watercolours of the South Island. ...

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Date created

circa 1884

Creator

Nicholas Chevalier

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/631373

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Landscapes (Representations) / Marine paintings / Canoes / Islands / Seas / Clouds / Cook Strait (New Zealand) / Kāpiti Island (New Zealand) / oil paint / canvas / paintings / Romantic / London

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