Four old indigenous men, Anatom, ca.1890

“Aneityum [Anatom] - Native elders of the Mission Church. In the middle is a chief, the old man with the stick on the left hand is blind. When Mrs. Lawrie’s youngest child was born, this old man begged admission to the room where the infant lay. They wondered why, because he could not see the child. He asked them to guide his hand to the child’s head, and then sinking to his knees, prayed very earnestly for God’s blessing and protection on the infant’s life.” Portrait of three men standing and one sitting in front of a building. They are heavily bearded and one appears to be carrying an umbrella. James Hay Lawrie and his wife were Presbyterian missionaries from Edinburgh and based on Aneityum, New Hebrides [Vanuatu], from 1879-1896. Later he was minister of several charges in New South Wales. Margaret Lawrie died in 1922 and her husband in 1929.

阿内蒂乌姆岛（Aneityum，亦称Anatom）——教会的原住民长老。画面居中者为酋长，左侧手持手杖的老者双目失明。劳里夫人的幼子出生时，这位老者请求进入婴儿所在的房间，众人颇感不解——因他无法看见孩子。他请人扶着自己的手触摸婴儿的头部，随后跪地恳切祈祷，祈求上帝赐福并庇佑婴儿的生命。
这幅肖像作品展现了三名站立男子与一名端坐男子立于建筑前方的场景：众人须发浓密，其中一人似持有雨伞。
詹姆斯·海·劳里（James Hay Lawrie）与妻子均为来自爱丁堡（Edinburgh）的长老会传教士，1879年至1896年驻留于新赫布里底群岛（New Hebrides，今瓦努阿图（Vanuatu））的阿内蒂乌姆岛。其后他先后在新南威尔士州（New South Wales）的多个牧区担任牧师。玛格丽特·劳里于1922年逝世，其丈夫于1929年离世。