Hilary Mitchell

Isaac Coates was an Englishman who lived in Wellington and Nelson between 1841 and 1845. During that time, he painted watercolour portraits of 58 Māori from Nelson, Marlborough, Wellington, Waikanae, and Kapiti. Some of these portraits have been well-known for nearly 180 years, although their creator was not definitively identified until 2000. The discovery in 2007 of a Coates book...