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| From Gloucester, England and the son of a retired naval officer, Robert Barnfield started his career in an architecture firm in London. Because of asthma, he went to New Zealand in 1883, and then in 1885 went to Hawaii on the ship "Explorer". He set up a studio in Honolulu in Oahu and stayed both there on the Queen Hospital Grounds and also spent much of the time in the Kona district on the big island.
He died in Honolulu on May 14, 1893. His watercolors, many of them of fish and coastal views, are in the Bishop Museum.
Source:
David Forbes, "Encounters With Paradise" |
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