Robert Herdman-Smith Britain, New Zealand, 1872-1945
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About Robert Herdman-Smith
Born in Liverpool, England, studied at the bath Municipal School of Art, and taught art in London before arriving in Wellington c1900 and from 1902 was a teacher at Wellington Technical College from 1906 Herdman-Smith was the Director of the Canterbury College School of Art, Christchurch. He was also an Examiner in Art for the Education Department. A landscape and streetscape artist in watercolour and an etcher, he exhibited extensively in New Zealand, including with the South Canterbury Art Society, the Auckland Society of Arts, Canterbury Society of Arts, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and Otago Art Society.
In our database, 57 works by Robert Herdman-Smith are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1975, of which 44 (77%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,704 for Entrance to Arab Bazaar Cairo sold by International Art Centre in November 2002. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Robert Herdman-Smith are held by the Auckland Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery.
Robert Herdman-Smith 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 114
- 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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