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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Goldie, Charles Frederick

Goldie, Charles Frederick, Artist, Auckland. Mr. Goldie is second son of Mr. David Goldie, so well known as a public man, a man of business, and as an ex-Mayor of Auckland, and on the paternal side he is a grandson of Mr. Partington, a celebrated English artist. He was born in 1871, and educated at the Auckland College and Grammar school. From his earliest days he gave promise of great artistic talent, and on leaving school studied art under Mr. L. J. Steele and the late Mr. Robert Atkinson, both page 320 well-known and prominent artists in Auckland. In 1892 Mr. Goldie went to Paris, and studied in the Academie Julian, the celebrated French school, under Professors Bouguereau, Constant, Ferrier, and Baschet. He studied anatomy at the Beaux Arts, under Professor Duval, who has written a book which is regarded as a standard work on artistic anatomy. Under these gentlemen Mr. Goldie studied figure painting for five years and a half. He also studied and copied in the Louvre, the Luxembourg, and in nearly all the other famous art galleries in Europe—namely, at Antwerp, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples, Amsterdam, the Hague, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Brussels, Bruges, Dusseldorf, and London. Mr. Goldie specially studied figure painting, in which he displays great and acknowledged talent. In a competition with 300 pupils at the Academie Julian, for a study from life, he was successful in obtaining a prize medal, with 150 francs. This work, which received the highest commendation from the professors, now adorns the walls of the Academie. In the portrait competition, which is held once a year, Mr. Goldie was successful in being placed twice second, and once third, and received numerous other mentions for other studies, also against 300 competitors. About 1898 Mr. Goldie returned to New Zealand, and in collaboration with Mr. Steele, one of his early masters, painted the celebrated picture, “The Arrival of the Maoris,” the conception and execution of which bear the stamp of genius. The picture was immediately secured for the Auckland Art Gallery, and was lent in 1900 to the Christchurch Exhibition, at which it won the greatest admiration for the talent of the artists, by whose permission it is reproduced in this work. Mr. Goldie is now (1901) engaged on a picture representing Christ disputing with the doctors or rabbis in the temple at Jerusalem. The subject is a most ambitious one, and embraces in all about fifteen figures. Its conception and colouring show that Mr. Goldie is a man of that kind of talent, which, sooner or later, makes its possessor notable, not only in his
Mr. Goldie's Studio.

Mr. Goldie's Studio.

The Arrival of the Maoris. (Photographed from the original painting, and reproduced by special permission of the artists, Messrs Goldie and Steele).

The Arrival of the Maoris. (Photographed from the original painting, and reproduced by special permission of the artists, Messrs Goldie and Steele).

page 321 native land, but beyond it. Mr Goldie's studio, which is considered to be one of the most artistic south of the line, occupies the top flat of Hobson's Buildings, in Shortland Street. Mr. Goldie has a large number of pupils, many of whom come from the extreme ends of the colony. In his college days he was a well-known footballer and patron of other kindred sports. He was a member of the Olympic Football Club at Paris, and played against the Oxford University team, which was beaten by one point.
Mr. Goldie's Studio: Another View.

Mr. Goldie's Studio: Another View.