Maori figures looking across an estuary

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Maori figures looking across an estuary

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Te Papa Collections Online

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This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). In 1894, Louis John Steele’s studio in Victoria Arcade on Shortland Street, Auckland, was described as a ‘combination of an art gallery, museum and general curiosity shop, with himself as a genial showman’.1 Certainly the English-born, Paris- and Italian-trained artist brought a dose of bohemianism to the colonial art scene when he arrived in New Zealand in 1886. Steele earned a place in New Zealand art histo...

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Date created

circa 1899

Creator

Louis John Steele

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/326761

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Landscapes (Representations) / Hills / Trees / Seas / Oceans / People / Māori / oil paint / wood / panels / oil paintings / Auckland

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