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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Painting of two people walking a plank path past tall kauri trunks and tree ferns under a cloudy sky.

Among the kauris, Waitakeres

Charles Blomfield, 1884

Painted hospital ship Marama with red cross markings sailing past a lighthouse and chalk cliffs under a blue cloudy sky.

Marama, NZ hospital ship off the Needles, Isle of Wight, English Channel

Frank Barnes, 1918

Painted portrait of a man with dark hair in a suit and patterned tie against a loose green brushed background.

Untitled. [Portrait of a man]

Elizabeth Berry, 1926

Loose oil landscape of a calm river under a pale glowing sky, with dark trees on the far bank and a sloping bank at left.

River scene

Painting of a thatched cottage beside a path, with autumnal trees and a stormy swirling sky above.

The Croft House, Bradford on Tone, Taunton, Somerset

Frances Hodgkins, 1946

Painting of a blue-grey bay seen through autumn trees, with rooftops, a path and distant hills across the water.

Across the Firth of Thames

Rhona Haszard, 1925

Painting of a dark, dense orchard with bold, sweeping tree trunks and branches over green foliage.

Le verger

André Derain, 1909

Painting of a young man in black hat and black clothing with white ruff collar, against a dark background.

Portrait of a young man

Woman in a blue dress on a wooded path watching two cows in a sunlit clearing among birch trees.

Fetching the cows

James Scott, 1911

Oil sketch of two men seen from behind, wearing wide-brimmed hats and carrying long poles over a grassy ground.

Two Marken bargemen

Petrus van der Velden, 1873

Painting of a river flowing past a pasture with trees, farm buildings and rolling hills under a cloudy sky.

Spring in Ayrshire

Ink drawing of a phoenix, a longma with flaming mane, a dragon and scrolling flowering tendrils on pale paper.

Mythological beasts (longma, dragon, pheonix and flowering tendrils)

Kanō Tsunenobu, 1674

Painting of a stormy sea breaking on rocks, with a horse and cart on the shore beneath a dramatic sky and seagulls.

Storm at Wellington Heads

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Oil portrait of an elderly man in a white wig, brown coat and red collar against a dark background.

Portrait of John Greenwood [senior]

Lemuel Francis Abbott, 1785

Woman with a milk pail stands in a sunlit meadow beside cows grazing under leafy trees, painted in loose dappled brushwork.

Tess

James Nairn, 1893

Loose brushwork painting of a rocky cliff with a dark cave opening, grassy ridge, grazing sheep and overcast sky.

Rock study, Sumner

Petrus van der Velden, 1890

Oil painting of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and sheepskin cloak holding a walking staff against a teal background.

Italian goatherd

Eleanor Sperrey, 1884

Painting of pale rocks on a shoreline with turquoise sea and blue-grey hills under a cloudy sky.

Iona

Samuel Peploe, 1920

Painting of windswept dunes with bare, twisted trees under a grey overcast sky with a pale glow on the horizon.

Landscape with bare trees

Petrus van der Velden

Oil still life of orange flowers in a patterned vase on a table beside a blue curtain, against a dark brown background.

The broken vase

Alfred O'Keeffe, 1929

Oil portrait of a young man in a dark cap and coat, holding a walking stick, against a dark olive background.

Francis Alexander Molesworth

Charles Landseer, 1828

Painting of a dark funeral boat with mourners on a canal, watched by figures on a grassy bank under a grey sky.

Marken funeral barge

Petrus van der Velden, 1890

Still life painting of cooked crayfish, a stoneware jug, bread, peaches and walnuts on a white tablecloth beneath a green dra

Still life

Jan van Kessel II

Loose painting of women in crinoline gowns seated beneath trees at an outdoor gathering, seen from behind.

A Fete at the Tuileries

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, 1856

Painting of a wooded hillside overlooking a hazy valley with a distant town and flat-topped hill under a pale sky.

Dunedin from Pine Hill

George Carrington

Painting of a Gothic cathedral interior with a robed procession moving toward a pipe organ and banners.

Going to Mass

Painting of a calm beach at low tide with pink clouds, breaking waves, rocks and gulls reflected in shallow water.

Untitled [seascape]

Ernest Christmas, 1905

Oil painting of a girl in a white dress and wide hat seated with a spaniel in a wooded landscape by a river.

Portrait of George Dawe as a child

George Morland, 1784

Painting of a brown hill, arched stone viaduct, white houses with red roofs, a green tree and a figure at a parapet.

Le Parapet, Vence

Jean Marchand, 1914

Painting of a kneeling woman holding a child, pleading with a man in a red cloak as an armed warrior stands behind her.

Andromache imploring Ulysses to spare the life of her son

George Dawe, 1810