Miss A May Moore exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts as a working member 1899 - 1906. Her chosen subject, Horatio Nelson Warner, was a prominent colonist who arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1843 and settled in Auckland. He worked with Charles Heaphy as a draughtsman and was Deputy Commissioner of the Waste Lands Committee. An artist himself, he exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts in 1875. He was the father of artist J B Warner, Lot 79.