Gottfried Lindauer, a painter of Maori subjects from the late nineteenth early twentieth centuries. Born in Pilsen, Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Lindauer trained professionally at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, emigrating to New Zealand in 1874.

Lindauer’s first portraits of Maori were painted in Nelson. A move to Auckland in the mid 1870s proved crucial, there he met businessman, Henry Partridge (1848-1931). Over the next 30 years, Partridge commissioned Lindauer to paint numerous portraits of eminent Maori, as well as large-scale depictions of traditional Maori life. Lindauer travelled extensively throughout New Zealand living in a variety of locations besides Nelson and Auckland, notably Christchurch, ...