Verso mount in blue ink: This portrait of Nellie Martha Ross (later Mrs Andrew Jensen) was painted by her father, Thomas Ross, & by Senor Nerli, together at Ravensbourne. She was 14 years old at the time. This would be about 1896. The same two men…
Lower right with brush: Woollaston; lower centre in pencil: M.T. Woollaston; verso in oil: [ A142, painting by W.H. Allen titled Study of Tui Northey, Dunedin. ca 1928]
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Woollaston ’55; label: Portrait of a boy [crossed out] The artist’s son Philip aged 10 1955; label: 43; label: Mountford Tosswill Woollaston, MAG 73-74 titled The artist’s son Philip, aged 10
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Potatau’s tomb, Ngaruawahia, Waikato; on sketchbook mount in ink: Potatau’s tomb, Ngaruawahia, Waikato. 1872; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew…