William Montague Nevin Watkins New Zealand, 1835-1904
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About William Montague Nevin Watkins
Watkins was born in 1835 and died in 1904. He lived in Akaroa on the South Island, for most of his life, painting local landscapes. He is believed to have travelled briefly to Melbourne during the late 1870s to study at the Melbourne School of Art. He mostly exhibited at the Canterbury Society of Arts.
The earliest auction listing we have for William Watkins is in 1970 and in total 20 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 13 (65%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $28,310 for Mt Aspiring and Waimakariri Valley sold by International Art Centre in March 2008. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by William Watkins are held by the Christchurch Art Gallery and National Gallery of Victoria.
William Montague Nevin Watkins is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 263
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
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