drawing
- Museum number
- 1914,0128.1
- Description
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The sketch club, portraits of Phil Morris (Associate RA), John Burr (artist), John MacWhirter (landscape painter), James Clarke Hook (landscape painter), John Pettie (painter), Robert Walker Macbeth (artist), Charles Edward Johnson (artist), Colin Hunter (artist), and Peter Graham (landscape painter); room interior, with nine figures sitting at a table, portrait hanging on wall beyond. 1883
Watercolour
- Production date
- 1883
- Dimensions
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Height: 233 millimetres
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Width: 323 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Jane Davidson-Ladd has suggested (email Nov. 2018, PhD on Steele, U. of Auckland) that Hook's name in the inscription might be read as Steele so that it might refer instead to Louis John Steele (1842-1918), an English artist who trained at the RA Schools and Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the 1860s. He practiced in London in the 1870s (especially as an engraver of works by Orchardson, Riviere and Stone), up until 1886 when he immigrated to New Zealand, where he spent the rest of his career. Hook was much older than the other artists; but neither name occurs in what we know of the Society (see Martin Hardie, 'A SKETCHING CLUB 1855-1880' in Artist : an illustrated monthly record of arts, crafts and industries; Jan 1902;33, pp. 1-9)
The drawing was presented by Leggatt and was inscribed with the artist's names; the names are stamped on the BM mount and are according to the BM register entry for the drawing. It is entirely possible that whoever registered the drawing read Hook for Steele.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1914,0128.1