Aboriginal people of Australia
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Aboriginal people of Australia, painted in the 1890s and attributed to H.M.L. Atcherley.Description:
Original title: 'Natives of Australia, ca. 1890s / attributed to H.M.L. Atcherley'.
Henry Mount Langton Atcherley was a Colour Sergeant in the Waikato Militia 1st Regiment from 1863–1866, and then served with the Opotiki Volunteer Rangers as Sergeant from 1869-1870.
In 1877 he exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts. He exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts from 1881 and the NZ Academy of Fine Arts 1895-1899.
Atcherley usually painted Maori subjects. In 1898 he exhibited a watercolour with Auckland Society of Arts showing a New South Wales subject suggesting he had possibly been in Australia prior to this date.
The full catalogue record is online at http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110342203.
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ca. 1890sCreator:
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Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.Source:
'Natives of Australia, ca. 1890s / attributed to H.M.L. Atcherley' collection. Identifier:
FL576115; FL576117Type:
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