[Portrait of Jean Gardner Batten]
Maker and role
Maurice Frederick Codner, Attributed to
Production date
Circa 1935
Object detail
Accession number
ART-2020-2
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Description
Framed oil painting attributed to British portrait artist Maurice Frederick Codner painted of Jean Gardner Batten seated in a landscape.
Purchased by The National Bank of New Zealand (now ANZ National Bank) in 1976 from England for display at new Auckland branch located on Jean Batten Place. Painting displayed until circa 1995..
Painting completed circa 1935, the same year that Jean Batten undertook a record breaking flight solo across the South Atlantic Ocean from Europe to South America. Completed in a Percival D.3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, on 11th November 1935 Batten flew from Dakar, Afrique occidentale française (French West Africa, now, Senegal) to Natal, Brazil. Her elapsed time was 13 hours and 15 minutes for the trans-Atlantic leg of the flight.
This flight set world records as Jean Batten was the the first woman to fly from England to South America solo. As well as establishing world records for the fastest ocean crossing and overall flight from Europe to South America and overall journey. With Batten covering the 1900 mile trip in 2 days, 13 hours and 15 minutes.
Post flight in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jean Batten was awarded the Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul (Order of the Southern Cross) by the President of the Republic of Brazil, Getúlio Dornelles on 21 November 1935. The following year, Jean Gardner Batten of the Dominion of New Zealand was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in the King’s Birthday Honours List, 19 June 1936, for general services to aviation.
Post the flight Batten toured Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, then returned to Europe for receiving more accolades including the Royal Aero Club's Britannia Trophy. With Amelia Earhart, was jointly awarded the Harmon International Trophy for the most outstanding flight by a woman in 1935. That year The London Daily Express named her one of its five women of the year.
Post this flight Jean Batten returned to England and rented a cottage with her mother near Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and disappeared from public view. She withdrew from public life until her record breaking flight in October 1936 from England to New Zealand.
Purchased by The National Bank of New Zealand (now ANZ National Bank) in 1976 from England for display at new Auckland branch located on Jean Batten Place. Painting displayed until circa 1995..
Painting completed circa 1935, the same year that Jean Batten undertook a record breaking flight solo across the South Atlantic Ocean from Europe to South America. Completed in a Percival D.3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, on 11th November 1935 Batten flew from Dakar, Afrique occidentale française (French West Africa, now, Senegal) to Natal, Brazil. Her elapsed time was 13 hours and 15 minutes for the trans-Atlantic leg of the flight.
This flight set world records as Jean Batten was the the first woman to fly from England to South America solo. As well as establishing world records for the fastest ocean crossing and overall flight from Europe to South America and overall journey. With Batten covering the 1900 mile trip in 2 days, 13 hours and 15 minutes.
Post flight in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jean Batten was awarded the Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul (Order of the Southern Cross) by the President of the Republic of Brazil, Getúlio Dornelles on 21 November 1935. The following year, Jean Gardner Batten of the Dominion of New Zealand was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in the King’s Birthday Honours List, 19 June 1936, for general services to aviation.
Post the flight Batten toured Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, then returned to Europe for receiving more accolades including the Royal Aero Club's Britannia Trophy. With Amelia Earhart, was jointly awarded the Harmon International Trophy for the most outstanding flight by a woman in 1935. That year The London Daily Express named her one of its five women of the year.
Post this flight Jean Batten returned to England and rented a cottage with her mother near Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and disappeared from public view. She withdrew from public life until her record breaking flight in October 1936 from England to New Zealand.
Media/Materials
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 70 cm x 90 cm, frame ; 78.5 x 99 cm
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Item
Credit Line
Maurice Frederick Codner. Circa 1935. [Portrait of Jean Gardner Batten], ART-2020-2. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Production place
United Kingdom
British Isles
Europe
British Isles
Europe
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