Esther Studholme Hope New Zealand, Britain, 1885-1975
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About Esther Studholme Hope
Born in Woodbury, New Zealand in 1885, Esther Barker studied in Christchurch and in 1911 went to England for further studies. She travelled through Europe and was in Brittany when war broke out in 1914. For the next four years she drove lorries and worked as a VAD. On her return to New Zealand in 1919, she married and lived on a farm in the Mackenzie country. Known mainly for her watercolours and gouaches of the Mackenzie country, Hope exhibited her work at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Esther Hope from 1986 and in total 89 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 70 (79%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $5,566 for Oast Houses, Kent sold by Watson's Auctioneers in July 2010. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Esther Hope are held by the Christchurch Art Gallery, Museum Of New Zealand and Art Gallery of South Australia.
Esther Studholme Hope 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 121
- 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.
The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 610,000 works by more than 12,000 artists who are listed as having either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, and an additional 36,000 foreign and other artists, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand from the early 1970s to the present day.
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