Gottfried Lindauer
Mrs Sarah Rutherford

Artwork Detail
Sarah Rutherford is dressed in her best clothes for the occasion of her portrait and Lindauer has taken meticulous care in recording the details in her costume and elegant jewellery. It has been said that early New Zealand settlers wore fashions that were some years behind those in Europe. However, people, especially women, would not be caught dead allowing themselves to be painted wearing out-of-date fashion. Both Sarah and her husband James could be thought of as our ‘Gothic couple’ because they are depicted in a grim almost matter-of-fact manner, but magnificently at the same time; perhaps to extol the virtues of hard-working colonial farmers.
- Title
- Mrs Sarah Rutherford
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1876
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 829 x 699 x 50 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Mr W J Rutherford, 1955
- Accession no
- 1955/38/2
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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