George Edmund Pruden Britain, New Zealand, 1870-1944
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About George Edmund Pruden
Born in England in 1842, little is known of this artist except that he exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts from 1905 to 1912. A landscape painter working in oil, most of his views are of the South Island, and his paintings are held in the Turnbull Library.
In our database, 109 works by George Pruden are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1992, of which 71 (65%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $6,937 for Early Colonial N.Z. Farm Clearing, Mt Egmont in Background sold by Dunbar Sloane in April 1995. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by George Pruden are held by the Christchurch Art Gallery.
George Edmund Pruden 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 203
- 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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