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Presants took up a role with CM Banks Ltd in
Wellington as factory manager, artist and designer. He remained there until 1921, when he resigned and accepted a position with Turnbull, Hickson and Gooder. Presants had purchased a large block of land in Norfolk St, Belmont and his wife, Eliza, re-opened
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Philip Robert
Presants was born on 18 December 1867 in Norwich, England to Philip Thomas Presants and Emma nΓ©e Gibbs. In 1890 Philip R. Preasants (sic), an apprentice architectural draughtsman, gained a Government Scholarship and a Third Prize for a 'Head from the Antique in Sepia'. He worked at Page
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Presants travelled almost every year between New
Zealand and England from 1925 to 1935, as attested by port arrival and departure records in Australia, Canada, the USA and England, leaving his family behind in Belmont. He settled in the UK just before the second World War, with his health continuing
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Presants' contribution to the emerging consciousness of New
Zealanders is discussed in a PhD thesis by Cathy Tuato'o Ross. Ross concludes her review of Presants' contribution with the following statement: "Presantsβ contribution to the newspaper and to the visual culture of the time was a model of
183:. His health then began to deteriorate and he went on a sketching tour of the South Island. Presants unsuccessfully advertised the picnic grounds for sale in 1924 "on account of the vendor going away" but they were still owned and operated by Eliza in 1928.
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Presants was responsible for a series of full-page colour lithographs in the
Christmas editions of the Weekly Press ca. 1899β1907. Many of these works depict MΔori subjects surrounded by endemic flowers and foliage and are available for inspection at the
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in 1909, Presants worked out of his own studio in High St, Christchurch, 1912β1919, before moving to
Belmont, Lower Hutt. During this period, he applied for a patent for a "container, folding or collapsible".
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Christchurch. He served as a member of the Decorative Committee and the Fine Arts Committee. Presants prepared the watercolour illustrations for the exhibition booklet, available for inspection at the
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he was a designer and painter, working in watercolours and oils. One of his own art works entitled 'Young New
Zealand at play: cricket in a mining town' was used as a colour supplement to
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Canterbury Jubilee Exhibition of 1900β1901 for which he designed the certificates, including an award presented to T.J. Edmonds, later known for the
196:, London in 1941. Presants was found drowned in the Serpentine, 27 October 1942, "on the way to, and near, St Mary's Hospital"; the coroner recorded an open verdict.
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Christchurch, New Zealand from about 1898 to 1909 as a chromolithographer and became Chief Artist by 1899. Four promotional photos from this period, held at
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Presants, Philip Robert, 1867β1942: New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. Calendar 1899. Ref: Eph-F-SHIP-1899. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
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professional excellence, working with and adapting established design and thematic conventions in a New Zealand context."
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