(b Auckland, Oct 20, 1870; d Auckland, July 11, 1947). New Zealand painter, specializing in portraits of Maori. He trained at the Académie Julian in Paris for five years from 1893, undertaking copying in the Louvre and other galleries and travelling widely in Europe. He was the only New Zealand artist of his generation to undertake such extensive European training. Back in Auckland in 1898, he capitalized on this cachet by opening the ‘French Academy of Art’ in collaboration with his former teacher, Louis John Steele (1842–1918). That year they collaborated on a large historical painting, the Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand (1898; Auckland, A.G.), loosely based on Théodore Gericault’s famous Raft of the Medusa in the Louvre. Goldie’s career took off from 1900 when he exhibited the first of the Maori portraits on which his fame rests. Following a path established by Steele’s portraits of tattooed chiefs, these mainly half-length portraits are painted in a naturalistic manner with careful attention to minute details of dress and ...