Captain Mervyn Stewart Painting (2000)

Date2000DescriptionThe purchase of the portrait of Mervyn Stewart, father of Hugh, George Vesey and Mary (Gledstanes) Stewart (and others in England) that now stands in the ballroom is another wonderful story of people being in the right place at the right time. Phillip and Marta Hamilton”s daughter Clare who was at the time living in England attended the auction and purchased the painting. Massive discussions were held as to whether funds should be spent on the painting, then getting it shipped to New Zealand, plus it needed to be framed. Finally it was completed and I can remember getting Bill Stewart in Tauranga who was out working on his farm to quickly come in to town to get his photo taken with the portrait and to give a real Stewart connection. The portrait finally arrived at the Homestead and was erected in the Drawing room in December 2004. It was a long drawn out deal but one not to be missed._x000D_
From left: Lynette Fisher (Harrison's Gallery), Ellen McCormack (Katikati Historian, Simone Buck (Harrison's Gallery) & Bill Stewart (second great grandson of Mervyn Stewart).
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Originally uploaded to the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020), into the Katikati History basket, or focus group, by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Debbie McCauley), on April 12, 2016.

Its original URL was: http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/en/katikati_history/images/show/11453 and its original license was: Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International.

Sometimes images contributed to Tauranga Memories by the community were uploaded by a library staff member. If this has resulted in your photographs being mis-attributed to a staff member, please let us know so we can correct this.The original Tauranga Memories site also sometimes collected the following (blank where empty):

First name: Mervyn

Surname: Stewart
Place of birth: County Tyrone, Ireland
Date of birth: 1794
City: Katikati, New Zealand
Year: 2000

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