of Beetham’s work was presented by the Wairarapa Arts Centre in 1973 and curated by Guy Ramsden. It was to be another 40 years before the most significant exhibition of Beetham's work to date was commissioned and titled Te Rū Movers & Shakers; Early New Zealand Portraits by William Beetham. This was curated by NZ art historian Jane Vial and exhibited at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in the capital city of Wellington in 2013 followed by a smaller spin-off exhibition titled Close to Home – William Beetham Portraits at Aratoi - Wairarapa Museum of Art and History in Masterton in 2014. The Te Rū exhibition included items from both private and public collections and showcased notable portraits of Chief Wi Tako and of his daughter, which had not previously been seen publicly. Te Āti Awa gifted the Te Rū piece of the exhibition title. Personal William Beetham married Mary Horsley at St Georges Parish Church, Doncaster on 25 June 1835. They had ten children together and thirty-two grandchildren. They lived firstly in Hexthorpe near Doncaster before moving to Prospect Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire and then onto Frimley Hill, Ash Vale, Surrey. From there they emigrated with their family to New Zealand, settling at Te Mako at Taita in the Hutt Valley, Wellington district. William sold the Te Mako property in 1885 and it was later destroyed by fire in 1929. They moved to their final residency in Wellington where Beetham died on 3 August 1888. His funeral attended by the Governor-General of New Zealand. After Beetham's death his wife Mary moved to the home of their daughter Annie and her husband Thomas Coldham Williams at Hobson Street, Wellington. William and Mary are both buried at the Bolton Street Memorial Park, Wellington, NZ. Plot 6801 on Trustees Crescent. William Beetham was father to 10 children. Those with national recognition in NZ were Richmond Beetham a NZ artist and senior Magistrate of Christchurch, William Henry Beetham a NZ wine pioneer who together with his French wife Marie Zelie Hermance Frere Beetham planted the first pinot noir grapes in NZ in 1888 at their Lansdowne vineyard in Masterton, The wine was tasted by Romeo Bragato the famous viticulturist who considered it exceptional. George Beetham a NZ politician and alpinist who was one of the first Pākehā to discover the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu. His daughter Mary–Margaret Beetham married James Nelson Williams, a