BOLLARD, John Henry Allen

Biography:

Son of William Allen Bollard of Moray Place,Dunedin, and Harriet Bollard nee Sankey. He was presumed missing, later declared killed in action by shell fire in France in 1916. His mother Harriet died the year he was born, in 1893, and is buried at the George Maxwell Memorial Cemetery with the Bollards. William Allen Bollard (1869-1941) was a landscape artist, and third son of John Bollard of Avondale.

There have been on view for the last few days, at the shop of Messrs. Phillipps and Sons, Queen-street, two fine paintings of houses, equal in distinctness of lines to photographs. One of the pictures is a front view of Mr. J. M. Alexander's residence, Mount Albert; the other is a view of Mr. Henderson's house in Ponsonby. They are the work of Mr. W. A. Bollard, a young man under 20 years of age, son of Mr. J. Bollard, of Avondale, who, in addition to serving his apprenticeship with Mr. Henderson, the well-known painter and decorator, has had the advantage of a course of study under Mr. Watkins, artist, and he certainly seems to have profited by the instruction he has received. (NZH 25 August 1888)

W A Bollard married Harriet Sankey 29 December 1891. She died two months after the birth of JHA Bollard in August 1893, aged 28.

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