KEESING, Samuel R. c.1858–1895

Son of Ralph Keesing, Auckland. Exhibited with the Society of page 143 Artists, Auckland 1879, with ASA 1881–84, winning silver medal for “special artistic excellence”; with NZ Art Students Assoc 1884 winning 1st prize for a New Zealand landscape, the 2nd prize going to Alfred Sharpe. In 1885 was reported as taking sketches of Roto-mahana with him to London where he was going to study: studied also in Paris and Rome, and visited USA and Japan, Died in Brighton, England.