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    PAINTED HISTORY

    Oct 03, 2021 4 minutes
    by PAUL DIAMOND

    Exquisite watercolour portraits of 58 Māori men, women and youths, painted 180 years ago, are the inspiration for the weighty and beautifully produced He Ringatoi o Ngā Tūpuna: Isaac Coates and his Māori portraits.

    Coates was an Englishman who lived in New Zealand from 1841-1845. All of his portraits are in profile, as silhouettes were popular in the 1840s. Coates made copies of his portraits, which were then copied by other artists.

    Of the roughly 105 surviving portraits, the largest number (52) are in a sketchbook held by the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Wellington’s Alexander Turnbull Library has 23, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, holds

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