Louis John Steele

Louis John Steele (30 January 1842 – 12 December 1918) was an English-born New Zealand artist and engraver.

[1] Steele studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris before journeying to Florence.

They had two sons, Ernest Henri and Louis John Sisson Piatti (born August 1871).

One of his early pupils was Charles Frederick Goldie, the most significant painter of Māori subjects.

[1] His large oil painting of an elderly Sir John Logan Campbell at his house Kilbryde (now the site of the Parnell Rose Gardens) was thought lost for 100 years, but resurfaced in 2017;[2] it fetched a record NZ$505,000.

Steele in 1906
Steele's "Portrait of a young Maori woman with moko " (1891)