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Robert Barnfield

Robert Barnfield (1856 - 1893) was active/lived in Hawaii / England.  Robert Barnfield is known for Landscape, coastal view, fish.

Robert Barnfield (1856-1893)

From Gloucester, England and the son of a retired naval officer, he started his career in an architecture firm in London.  Because of asthma, he went to New Zealand in 1883, and then in 1885 went to Hawaii on the ship "Explorer".  Barnfield remained in Honolulu, where he painted and gave art lessons, especially to several women in Honolulu.  He was interested in the current events of the island, and recorded in his diary the events that followed the death of the Hawaiian King, Kalakaua. He set up a studio in Oahu and stayed both there on the Queen Hospital Grounds and also spent much of the time in the Kona district on the big island.

Barnfield died in Honolulu, at age 38, on May 14, 1893.  Among his friends were artists Allen Hutchinson and W.F. Cogswell.

His watercolors of tropical fish, some of which were sent to the British Museum in 1891, with faithful renderings and accurate colors, have contributed to the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1307 characters.]  Artist bio

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