Elinor May Constable
1872-1937
Hinemoa's Island from Postmaster Bath 1904
oil on paper
signed and dated on reverse; titled lower centre
Image Size:
165 x 250mm
(6.5 x
9.8in)
Framed Size:
400 x 470mm
(15.7 x
18.5in)
Stock Number: 34218
Price category under $2,999
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Elinor May Constable was married to Hugh Golding
Constable, grandson of the great landscape painter
John Constable RA. Hugh Constable was a fellow of The Royal Geographic Society and a member of the Royal Institute of Navigation (UK), and his association with these august bodies may have been the reason for their visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1904-05. Elinor May Constable executed a suite of small en plein air oil studies documenting her visits to Rotorua, Waiwera and Temuka. Hinemoa's Island from the Postmaster'(s) Bath 1904 appears to have been painted from the channel between Lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti. Sighting from there, past Mokoia (Hinemoa's) Island, one can see in the
distance the crest of the Southern Mamaku range.
NZ Railways Magazine Vol 5, June 2, 1930 in an article "The Waters of Healing" notes "...Some of the best known of these springs ... are the Postmaster's Bath, an exceedingly powerful wai-ariki, on the shores of Rotorua Lake". "Many of these springs bear English names... because of some pakeha pioneer who derived benefit from
their life-renewing wells and who proclaimed the virtues of the waters. The Priest's Bath and The Postmaster's bath are examples" © NZETC, Victoria University.
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