Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
HOLMES, William Howard 1825–1885
HOLMES, William Howard 1825–1885
Arrived in Lyttelton on the Castle Eden in 1851, accompanying the Rev. Thomas Jackson, Bishop Designate, to be school master for the Canterbury Association; his special qualifications music, drawings and painting. He gave evening classes and was teacher under Jacobs of the Grammar School in Lyttelton, later at St Peter's School. He made sketches of Lyttelton in 1851 to be lithographed by H. Adland in London. In 1854 a set of “outline engravings” from sketches by Holmes was announced in Lyttelton: one of these is in the Canterbury Museum. Early in 1852 he moved to Wellington: was Drawing Master at Abel Smith Street School 1866–67, Wellington College 1875–1881 and at Battersea Training College Wtn probably the same years.