Christopher Edward Perkins (born 21 September 1891 at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, died Ipswich, Suffolk, 8 April 1968) was a British artist who worked in England and New Zealand.
By 1914 he launched his professional career, but joined the British army at the outbreak of the First World War, rising to the rank of acting captain.
Important works include Silverstream brickworks (1930), Taranaki (1931), Activity on the wharf (1931), Meditation (1931), Haka, Maori meeting (1932–34).
He achieved a reputation as a portrait painter, showing pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts and holding many exhibitions, but never attained the leading position he had had in New Zealand.
They had three children;[citation needed] Jane Perkins married the mycologist Denis Garrett and published a memoir in 1986, An Artist's Daughter, recounting the family's time in New Zealand.