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This water colour by itinerant painter Christopher Aubrey shows a farm and rural area in the Whanganui region. The painting is unfinished and pencil marks can be discerned where the artist obviously intended to in-paint bush and trees.
Formerly attributed to J A Gilfillan, a new attribution to Christopher Aubrey was made on 21 Sep 2005 for following reasons: J A Gilfillan was in Whanganui for two years in the 1840s, long before the extensive farming and significant building, as shown in this painting, had been achieved, and the style is distinctly that of Christopher Aubrey, not that of Gilfillan.
The perspective seems to be south east from a hill, with the sea in the distance, possibly above "Marangai", the Cameron family farm, and the Cameron Blockhouse. If this is correct, these two buildings can be seen in the middle distance in a valley, surrounded by fenced cultivated paddocks and pasture. There is a tall tree in foreground of painting. The hills surrounding both sides of the valley are covered with bush. A purple cloud-filled sky is in the distance.
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