Charles Decimus Barraud
{{Short description|New Zealand pharmacist and artist (1822–1897)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Charles Decimus Barraud
| image = Portrait of the painter, Charles Decimus Barraud, ca 1860s. Reference Number PA1-q-036-30-3.jpg
| caption = Charles Decimus Barraud, {{circa}} 1860s
| birth_date = 9 May 1822
| death_date = 26 December 1897
| spouse = Sarah Maria Style
| children = Jessie Sarah Wright
}}
File:Remarkables - Barraud.jpg" by Charles Decimus Barraud- Chromo Lithograph. published 1877; original painted between 1849 and 1875]]
Charles Decimus Barraud (9 May 1822 – 26 December 1897) was a New Zealand pharmacist and artist.
Biography
The tenth recorded child of William Francis Barraud and his wife, Sophia Hull, Charles was born in Camberwell, Surrey, England on 9 May 1822.
He emigrated with his family to New Zealand, arriving in Wellington in August 1849. Barraud married Sarah Maria Style on 17 March 1849 at St Lawrence's Church, Southampton.{{Cite web |url= http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=bhRlF33U29C1vVOcRq%2FeZw&scan=1 |title=Index entry |accessdate=8 June 2014 |work=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS}} The marriage produced six recorded sons and three daughters, including Jessie Sarah Wright. His wife was a cousin of Judge Henry Samuel Chapman,{{DNZB|last=Kay|first=Robin|id=1b8|title=Charles Decimus Barraud|accessdate=23 April 2017}} and it was Chapman who encouraged the emigration, lending the Barrauds a cottage when they arrived, and in which they lived until their own house had been built.
Barraud quickly set up shop in Lambton Quay as a pharmacist. At the same time he soon gained recognition as an artist, at this point regarded as an "enthusiastic amateur", and working mostly in watercolours. He painted the children of Henry William Petre in 1850, but the visiting Charlotte Godley, who wanted a portrait of her son Arthur, was scathing of his talent:{{cite book | page=74 | editor-last = Godley | editor-first = John Robert | editor-link =John Robert Godley |last=Godley |first=Charlotte |authorlink=Charlotte Godley | title =Letters from Early New Zealand | year = 1951 | publisher =Whitcombe & Tombs | location =Christchurch | url = http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-GodLett.html | accessdate = 14 June 2014}}
There is a chemist here who has lately turned artist, and who has perpetrated a few likenesses, very like, but very bad... If it were likely to be tolerable I should so like to have Arthur done, but I am afraid it would be only a disappointment.
References
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External links
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- [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search?searchTerm=barraud%2C+charles+decimus+&scope=all Works in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]
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Category:Burials at Bolton Street Cemetery
Category:19th-century New Zealand male artists
Category:19th-century New Zealand painters
Category:Artists from Wellington City
Category:Health professionals from Wellington City
Category:British emigrants to New Zealand
Category:New Zealand pharmacists
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