Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
BEAUCHAMP, Robert Proctor 1819–1889
BEAUCHAMP, Robert Proctor 1819–1889
Son of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor Bart R.N. In 1839 arrived in New Zealand to visit his brother-in-law Sir Francis Skipworth who farmed near Wellington. Was said to have attempted to settle in New Zealand in the 1840s and 1850s. In the late 1850s gave lessons in drawing and painting. Was in Otago by 1877 and exhibited with OAS 1877–88. (His subjects in 1877 were Tasmanian). 1877 he exhibited a painting with a Tasmanian subject with CSA. Finally settled in Tasmania.