John Elder Moultray Scotland, New Zealand, 1865-1922
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About John Elder Moultray
Born in Scotland in 1865, Moultray was taught by his father James Douglas Moultray and studied at Edinburg College of Art. He travelled to New Zealand with his family in 1883 aged 21 and travelled around the Norrth Island painting and sketching . Basically a landscape artist, he also painted scenes of the Maori war in 1860. He exhibited with the Otago Art Society and at the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880 and the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition in 1898. During the Boer War 1899 to 1902 he worked as a newspaper correspondent.
We have records of art auction sales by John Moultray from 1978 and in total 175 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 112 (64%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $20,165 for Attack on the British Camp at Nukumaru by Hautiaus-Maori War sold by Dunbar Sloane in November 2021. This year one work has been offered for sale.
John Elder Moultray 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 177
- 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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