Jubilee exhibition of Australian art

56 McPHERSON ' S STORE , BENDIGO, V I CTOR I A T H O M A S WA T L I N G , b. 1762 Watercolour, 9 ins. x 13 ins. Born England. Arrived Sydney i n 1791, where h e m a d e scientific recordings o f Australian birds and F r om the N a n Kivell Collection b y courtesy o f the Commonwealth National Library. scenery. His Sydney Cove is t h e earliest picture known o f this chief British Settlement i n N e w South Wales, painted i n the sixth year o f its existence. T h e accurately d r a w n view is romantically framed b y t h e dark silhouettes o f fantastic trees i n t h e picturesque taste o f English 18th century landscape art. 62 SYDNEY COVE , 1794 U N K N O W N Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 353 ins. x 51 ins. 57 SYDNEY HARBOUR F R O M T H E O L D F O R T Dixson Gallery, Sydney. Oil on board, 1 l I ins. x 16 ins. F r om the N a n Kivell Collection by courtesy o f the Commonwealth National Library. U N K N O W N I FRANCI S GU I L L EMARD S I MPK I NSON DE WESSELOW, b. 1819 58 T OO R AK 1849 Born England. Served in t h e English N a v y before h e c a m e t o Ho b a r t . A watercolour artist o f consider- able merit a n d a friend o f Samuel Prout a n d Turner, whose influence appears in his work. Produced a Watercolour, 16J ins. x 23 ins, n u m b e r o f watercolours i n Tasmania, the majority o f which a r e own e d b y the Royal Society o f Tasmania. F r om the Collection o f Colonel Allan Spowers. 63 T H E DERWENT F R O M T H E OBSERVATORY Unsigned. Watercolour on cardboard, 9 J ins. x 131 ins. T H O M A S GR I FF I TH W A I N EWR I G H T , 1794-1847 Royal Society o f Tasmania. Born London. Artist, writer, dandy, forger, poisoner a n d convict. While prisoner i n Ho b a r t , where h e h a d been transported i n 1837, h e was permitted t o p a i n t portraits which show a n accomplished technique a n d conventional elegance o f line. 59 P OR T RA I T O F MRS . WILSON Unsigned. Watercolour, 16 ins. x 12 ins. 64 GEELONG, AUSTRAL IA FEL IX , JANUARY , 1847 T h e Tasmanian Museum and Ar t Gallery. Unsigned. Watercolour, lO ins. x l 4 ins. Royal Society o f Tasmania. W . G. WALL No details available. 60 GREAT COLL INS STREET , LOOK I NG WE S T F R OM RUSSELL STREET, MELBOURNE Signed and dated W. G. Wall, 1854; 1.1. Watercolour, 9 ins. x 13 ins. F r om the N a n Kivell Collection by courtesy o f the Commonwealth National Library. III, THE ART OF THE MIDDLE PERIOD JAMES WALL I S , First Half 19th Century J U L I A N ROSSI A S H T O N , C.B.E., 1851-1942 Born England. C a m e t o N e w South Wales in 1814 as C a p t a i n o f t h e 46th Regiment. C o mm a n d e r a t Born Cornwall. Studied i n L o n d o n a n d Paris. Settled i n Australia i n 1878; taught a r t i n Sydney and Newcastle, 1816-1819. M a d e sketches i n a n d around Sydney, twelve o f which were published b y Ackerman, London, i n 1821. T h e weird d e a d branches t o t h e left a n d t h e uniform darkness give a 'primitive' air became t h e leader o f the Impressionist movement i n t h a t city. to this first picture o f a corroboree. 61 CORROBOREE A T NEWCASTLE 65 A SOL I TARY RAMBLE Unsigned. Signed and dated J . R . Ashton, June, 1886; 1.1. Oil on wood panel, 27 ins. X 4 7 fl8. Watercolour, 13 ins. x 9 ins. Dixson Gallery, Sydney. National Art Gallery o f New South Wales. 32 1 33