WALSH, ALFRED WILSON (1859-1916) was born at Kyneton, Victoria; came to New Zealand with his parents as a child, and was educated privately in Dunedin, where he acquired a great taste for the countryside and nature. While employed as a draughtsman in the Public Works department, he took lessons in drawing and painting from David Hutton. By sketching assiduously he had achieved a reputation by the age of 27. He was for 20 years from 1886 on the teaching staff of the Christchurch School of Art, and 10 years on the council of the Canterbury Society of Arts. He was an enthusiastic gardener. After his mother's death he retired from the School of Art and, having married a daughter of Mr Justice Conolly, he continued landscape painting, showing a vigorous spontaneity in the handling of his medium. He did most of his work in north Canterbury and Westland. Walsh died on 10 Sep 1916. An exhibition of his work was held at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington in 1926.

W.S.W. in programme of exhibition cit. (p); J. C. Duncan in Art in New Zealand, Mar 1929; The Press, 13 Sep 1916.

Reference: Volume 2, page 231

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