J C Hoyte (1835-1913)

Aliases: J. C. Hoyte; John Barr Clarke Hoyte

Professions: Painter

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  John Barr Clarke Hoyte - St. Marys Bay, Auckland

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  Art Work by: John Barr Clarke Hoyte . Lake

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  Art Work by: John Barr Clarke Hoyte : Stirling

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  Whangarei Harbour John Barr Clarke Hoyte

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J C Hoyte Biography

(b England, c. 1835; d Mosman, Sydney, 21 Feb 1913). New Zealand painter of English birth, active also in Australia. He arrived in Auckland in 1860, worked as a school art teacher and travelled widely in search of landscape subjects for his watercolours. Apparently self-taught, he developed quickly from producing rather crude works in the early 1860s to such ambitious exhibition watercolours in the 1870s as View of Auckland (1873; Auckland, C.A.G.). Hoyte earned a precarious living from his art, making sketching tours and sending works to exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne. In 1876 he moved to Dunedin, and from there to Sydney in 1879. His practice of making replicas of his more celebrated works continued in Australia, where he churned out views of such tourist spots as Milford Sound, NZ. These later works exhibit a dramatic loss of quality, and despite being the first president of the Art Society of New South Wales, Hoyte made little impact on Australian art.

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