Mt Cook
127. John Douglas Perrett 1859 - 1937
Mt Cook
Oil on canvas
35 x 53 cm
Signed
est. $1,500 - 2,500
Fetched $1,400
Relative Size: Mt Cook
Relative size

John Douglas Perrett (1859 - 1937) was a prolific painter of landscapes in both oil and pastel. Born in Scotland he studied at the Glasgow School of Art. Perrett arrived in Dunedin c.1886. In 1894, with fellow painters G P Nerli and L W Wilson, he opened Otago Art Academy, a private art school. He moved north to Auckland in 1895 and continued exhibiting with the Otago Art Society and Auckland Society of Arts for another three decades. Perrett also exhibited at the NZ and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin 1889-90, Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition 1898 and St Louis Exposition, 1904. Represented in many institutional galleries in New Zealand including Hocken Library.

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