Rārangi
Rārangi
Momo Taonga
Ingoa/Taitara
At Mercer on the Waikato
Kaiwaihanga Matua
Rā
1875
Waitohu/māka
Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko
Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei
Child
Rawatoi/Mātū
Watercolour on paper
Huinga Kaupapa
Ngā Taipitopito Tātai Takenga
unknown
Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana
A watercolour 'Mercer, on the Waikato from Telegraph Hill' was exhibited at the Auckland Society of Arts in 1877, valued at £6. Exhibited in 'The Watercolours of Alfred Sharpe,' Auckland City Art Gallery 1973 that travelled to Manawatu Art Gallery, and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. No. 4 in catalogue, 'Mercer' 1875.
Alfred Sharpe (1836?-1908) was raised in Birkehead, Cheshire, England in an art-collecting family. He migrated to New Zealand in 1859. Sharpe studied at the Birkenhead School of Arts, and was a leading watercolorist in the formative Auckland Society of Arts exhibitions of the 1870s. He also wrote numerous opinion pieces, published under pseudonyms, that show marked intolerance of colonial society. Sharpe emigrated to Newcastle, New South Wales in 1887, leaving his wife Jane in care in Auckland, and found success as a designer of parks and architecture.
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06 Dec 2022
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