Richard Laishley b. 1816

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Laishley was a natural history painter, lithographer and Congregational clergyman; a pupil of the painter and engraver Le Cocq. He was sent to New Zealand and Australia by the Congregational Missionary Society, staying on and entering many colonial exhibitions.
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Auckland Society of Art, Auckland, NZ
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References [<ExternalResource: Laishley, Richard, 'Sketch notes of family history', Unfinished manuscript.>, <ExternalResource: Laishley, Richard, 'Gleanings of natural history in New Zealand', Uncompleted manuscript.>, <ExternalResource: Laishley, Richard (1870), 'Parrots of Australia', Projected book of lithographic illustrations and accompanying descriptions.>, <ExternalResource: Laishley, Richard, 'British Birds Eggs'.>, <ExternalResource: Mander-Jones, P. (1972), 'Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Platts, U. (1980), 'Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists', Christchurch, NZ.>, <ExternalResource: Scholefield, G.H. (1940), 'A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 1', Wellington, NZ.>] [<ExternalResource: Laishley, Richard, 'Sketch notes of family history', Unfinished manuscript.>, <ExternalResource: Laishley, Richard, 'Gleanings of natural history in New Zealand', Uncompleted manuscript.>, <ExternalResource: Laishley, Richard (1870), 'Parrots of Australia', Projected book of lithographic illustrations and accompanying descriptions.>, <ExternalResource: Laishley, Richard, 'British Birds Eggs'.>]