John Douglas Perrett Scotland, New Zealand, 1859-1937
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About John Douglas Perrett
Born in Scotland in 1859, John Perrett studied at the Glasgow School of Art, and arrived in Dunedin, New Zealand in about 1886. He opened the private art school, the Otago Art Academy in 1894. Perrett moved to Auckland the following year and taught painting there. He exhibited with the Otago Art Society, the Auckland Society of Arts, the New Zealand and South Seas exhibition of 1889-1890 and the St Louis Exposition in 1904.
John Perrett is one of the most prolific of the artists listed in our database, with the number of works offered for sale by auction since 1973 of 586, of which 476 (81%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $18,050 for Head of Lake Manapouri sold by Dunbar Sloane in April 2011. This year 8 works have been offered for sale. Works by John Perrett are held by the Auckland Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery.
John Douglas Perrett 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 198
- 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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