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(3) Charles Heaphy
(b London, 1820; d Brisbane, 3 Aug 1881). Son of (1) Thomas Heaphy. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools, London. In 1839 he was appointed artist and draughtsman for the New Zealand Company, in which capacity he travelled to the colony, where he made topographical views of settlements at Wellington, Wanganui and New Plymouth and painted landscape views in both the North and South Islands. Heaphy’s watercolours are distinguished by his fresh, almost naive vision rendered with crisp outlining of forms and bright colour. In later years Heaphy settled in Auckland, where he was Provincial Surveyor and represented Parnell in the House of Representatives. Examples of his work are Mt Egmont from the Southward (watercolour, 1840; Wellington, NZ, Turnbull Lib.) and Cape Brett, Bay of Islands (watercolour, c. 1853; London, BL).
Part of the Heaphy family
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