Category: Pictures

‘South Sea Whale Fishery’ aquatint by J Huggins (‘Marine Painter to His Majesty’) dated 1825.

Image Dimension 44cm x 56cm

Price AU$2,985 inc GST

‘Feeding the Brewery Pigeons’ fine etching by George Woolliscroft Rhead c1890.

Image Dimensions 17cm x 19.70cm

Price AU$1,195 inc GST

Mr Snarl’s Dogs’ Academy’ late 19^th century chromolithograph.

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Price AU$1,985 inc GST

‘Astrapia Nigra’ original coloured lithograph after John Gould from Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands (published 1875-1888).

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Price AU$2,450 inc GST

‘Seleucides Nigricans’ original coloured lithograph after John Gould from Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands (published 1875-1888).

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‘Two Figures’ mixed media on board dated 1952 by Lyndon Raymond Dadswell.

Image Dimensions 94cm x 70cm

Price AU$4,485 inc GST

“Last Gleams, Burragorong” Oil board c1960 by William Rubery Bennett

William Rubery Bennett was born in 1893 in Brisbane, dying in 1987. He studied at the Royal Queensland Art Society School and in Sydney with John Salvana, Lawson Balfour and Fred Britten. He moved to Sydney where he conducted the Rubery Bennett Art Gallery dealing mostly in Australian impressionistic painters between 1930 and 1940.He was one of the first to exhibit the work of Tom Garrett (1929) and later he became a popular painter of late impressionistic landscapes, his aim being to capture the pervading light of summer landscapes.
His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Queensland Art Gallery and the Queensland Art Gallery.
Biblio: Bénézit: Dictionnaire des Peintres; McCulloch: Encyclopedia of Australian Art.

Image Dimensions 25cm x 30cm

Price AU$5,985 inc GST

“The Harbour” Watercolour c1950 by Loudon Sainthill

Loudon Sainthill was born in Hobart in 1919, dying in London in 1969. He studied at the Melbourne Techincal College and was influenced by the arrival in Melbourne of Colonel De Basil’s Russian Ballet Company. He held his first exhibition at the Australia Hotel, Melbourne and travelled to England as member of the ballet company, and held a successful exhibition at the Redfern Gallery, London. His work for the stage in Britain included The Tempest at Stratford-upon-Avon, and by 1954, when he designed ‘Le Coq D’Or’ (Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera) for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, he was established as a major designer for the theatre. He influenced a whole succession of Australian designers and established a tradition of Australia theatre design.
His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery, Canberra, as well as many State and regional galleries, and the Victoria and Albert Museum London.
Biblio: McCulloch Encylopedia of Australian Art; Bénézit: Dictionary of Painters.

Image Dimensions 45cm x 50cm

Price AU$8,485 inc GST