He Ringatoi O Nga Tupuna: Isaac Coates and his Maori portraits - Hilary Mitchell Health and Wellbeing GSX-R750K7 750cc 2007

GSX-R750K7 750cc 2007

Deskjet D7360

MFC9340CDW

World-renowned artist Ray Ching brings his masterful brush to a truly unique celebration of Aotearoa’s birds and landscapes

:   430x580mm

He Ringatoi O Nga Tupuna: Isaac Coates and his Maori portraits - Hilary Mitchell Health and Wellbeing GSX-R750K7 750cc 2007Isaac Coates was an Englishman who lived in Wellington and Nelson between 1841 and 1845. During that time he painted watercolour portraits of 58 Maori from Nelson, Marlborough, Wellington, Waikanae and Kapiti. Some of these portraits have been well known for nearly 180 years, although their creator was not definitively identified until 2000. The discovery in 2007 of a Coates book of portraits in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University added many