Charles Decimus Barraud

"The Remarkables" by Charles Decimus Barraud- Chromo Lithograph. published 1877; original painted between 1849 and 1875 Charles Decimus Barraud (9 May 1822 – 26 December 1897) was a New Zealand pharmacist and artist.

Biography The tenth recorded child of William Francis Barraud and his wife, Sophia Hull, Charles was born in Camberwell, Surrey, England on 9 May 1822.

He emigrated with his family to New Zealand, arriving in Wellington in August 1849. The marriage produced six recorded sons and three daughters, including Jessie Sarah Wright. and it was Chapman who encouraged the emigration, lending the Barrauds a cottage when they arrived, and in which they lived until their own house had been built.

There is a chemist here who has lately turned artist, and who has perpetrated a few likenesses, very like, but very bad... If it were likely to be tolerable I should so like to have Arthur done, but I am afraid it would be only a disappointment.