JC Hoyte - Auckland Art Gallery
JC Hoyte - Auckland Art Gallery JC Hoyte - Auckland Art Gallery
ROLLESTON RANGES IN CANTERBURY and One of theREMAEKABLES FROM NEAR QUEENSTOWN.By now a certain pattern of behaviour seemedover the years to suggest itself. Hoyte had beenattached to a school, enjoying the regular schoolholidays. At each exhibition there had been at leastone series of pictures painted in a district a fairdistance from his home. When-in January, 1874,we learn that he had arrived in Christchurch on asketching tour of Canterbury we feel our conjecturesverified. Each long vacation he probablygathered material for the coming exhibition, andthe catalogue lists of his paintings surely tell uswhere he was the previous January. Using this as aguide, it would seem that after his resignation fromthe Society of Artists in December 1875, he wentdown to Otago on another sketching tour. Thenperhaps, finding a suitable position or at least suitableprospects in Dunedin, he moved his familydown there later in the year.The catalogue for the 1877 Otago Art Society isnot available, but it is stated in A Century of Artthat at this exhibition J. C. Hoyte's prices were only£2 while Gully's paintings fetched £20. This seemshard to understand, for in the 1878 catalogue hisprice range was from £6-£30, and at the 1877exhibition itself the Hon. H. S. Chapman, in hisopening speech, talked of Mr Hoyte as an artistwell known there and said that ' from a cursorypoint of view ' there was one picture by him thathe would ' almost designate as the best water colourdrawing in the room.' He added rather tantalisinglythat Mr Hoyte exhibited a large number of draw-18
ings last year, and 'would have had more now, butthey arrived too late.'The reviewer for the Otago Daily Times did notapparently agree with the Hon. Chapman's judgment.He was inclined ' to give the palm of thewhole gallery to Mr Gully.'It was at this exhibition that Hoyte won an artunion prize and chose a watercolour of John Gully.Both these men were travelling in Otago in thesummer of 1877, and it would be pleasant to thinkthat they were friends and were sketching together.If ever it is possible to get hold of an 1877 catalogueit will be interesting to compare the titles of theirpictures and see if they point to a similar path.In December, 1878, Mr Hoyte is showing fourteenwatercolours with the Otago Art Society. Thetitles, as well as pointing to trips taken the previoussummer, show his habit of making new versions ofpaintings that have perhaps proved popular before.The TE TARATA shown in our present exhibition isdated 1873 and is almost certainly the originalpainting shown in the exhibition of that year. Butthere have been other 'Te Taratas' painted, andshown in Australia and (in 1878) in Dunedin.The Hocken Library in Dunedin owns a TETARATA dated 1882, but this would not necessarilysuggest that Hoyte had visited New Zealand thatyear. He had then been in Australia more than twoyears. We know this first from a statement appearingin the Illustrated New Zealand Herald of May22: 'According to the Qamaru Mail, Mr J. C.Hoyte, the well known painter, is about to shift thescene of his labours to New South Wales.' Then inDecember of the same year, he was sending wateriy
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ROLLESTON RANGES IN CANTERBURY and One of theREMAEKABLES FROM NEAR QUEENSTOWN.By now a certain pattern of behaviour seemedover the years to suggest itself. <strong>Hoyte</strong> had beenattached to a school, enjoying the regular schoolholidays. At each exhibition there had been at leastone series of pictures painted in a district a fairdistance from his home. When-in January, 1874,we learn that he had arrived in Christchurch on asketching tour of Canterbury we feel our conjecturesverified. Each long vacation he probablygathered material for the coming exhibition, andthe catalogue lists of his paintings surely tell uswhere he was the previous January. Using this as aguide, it would seem that after his resignation fromthe Society of <strong>Art</strong>ists in December 1875, he wentdown to Otago on another sketching tour. Thenperhaps, finding a suitable position or at least suitableprospects in Dunedin, he moved his familydown there later in the year.The catalogue for the 1877 Otago <strong>Art</strong> Society isnot available, but it is stated in A Century of <strong>Art</strong>that at this exhibition J. C. <strong>Hoyte</strong>'s prices were only£2 while Gully's paintings fetched £20. This seemshard to understand, for in the 1878 catalogue hisprice range was from £6-£30, and at the 1877exhibition itself the Hon. H. S. Chapman, in hisopening speech, talked of Mr <strong>Hoyte</strong> as an artistwell known there and said that ' from a cursorypoint of view ' there was one picture by him thathe would ' almost designate as the best water colourdrawing in the room.' He added rather tantalisinglythat Mr <strong>Hoyte</strong> exhibited a large number of draw-18
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