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Alfred Sharpe
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(1863 – 1908), New Zealand

Alfred Sharpe Biography

Alfred Sharpe’s watercolours of New Zealand’s settlement in the 1870s and 1880s poignantly document the clearing of land by an artist sensitive to the enduring impact of colonisation on the natural environment.  

Sharpe studied at the Birkenhead School of Art near Liverpool, arriving in Auckland in 1859.   He worked as an architectural draftsman and maintained a career as a professional artist, exhibiting with the Auckland Society of Artists

(1873-1877), the Auckland Society of Arts (1881-87), and throughout Australasia.  Sharpe was also an important advocate for the arts, writing for the New Zealand Herald and the Observer.

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Unlike John Gully’s popular romantic landscapes, Sharpe’s work is less formulaic.  His detailed descriptions of the natural environment reveal an appreciation of the Pre-Raphaelites, possibly influenced by his time in Liverpool.  In 1887, he moved to Newcastle, Australia. 

Sharpe has work in the Auckland Art Gallery and Te Papa Tongarewa.  

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