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HENRY JAMES JOHNSTONE

(1835 – 1907, British) TWILIGHT, RIVER GOULBURN, VICTORIA, 1878 oil on canvas 26.0 x 51.0 cm signed and dated lower left: H.J. Johnstone 1878 inscribed with title and artist’s name on old label verso

ESTIMATE: $8,000 – 12,000

PROVENANCE

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (label attached verso) Private collection, Melbourne Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 20 April 2011, lot 84 Private collection, Melbourne In nineteenth-century Australia, the marriage of photography and painting reached fascinating heights - perhaps none greater than those achieved by British-born H.J. Johnstone. Drawn to Australia by gold, his popularity grew through his fashionable photographic studio on Melbourne’s Bourke Street, together with his nationalistic landscapes and flamboyant personality. Exhibiting with the Victorian Academy of Arts from 1872, he was inclined to paint looking into the light, especially sunsets – captured with awe-inspiring realism, stillness echoed in mirrored images and gums silhouetted in grandeur. Johnstone’s related work, Evening Shadows, Backwater of the Murray, 1880, was the first painting acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1881.

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DAVID THOMAS

ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BACKLER

(1813 – 1895) HORSES AND CATTLE WITH ABORIGINAL STATION HAND, WELLWOOD FARM, ORANGE, NSW, c.1840 – 1850 oil on canvas 64.0 x 91.5 cm

ESTIMATE: $20,000 – 30,000

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PROVENANCE

Collection Wellwood Farm, Orange, New South Wales Private collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above, c.1970 Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

HENRY FULLWOOD

(1863 – 1930) THE CAMP, c.1890 oil on panel 18.5 x 36.0 cm signed with initials lower left: A H.F bears inscription verso: THE CAMP / BY A.H FULLWOOD

ESTIMATE: $8,000 – 12,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Private collection Stephen Scheding Collection, Sydney (bears stamp verso) Private collection, Sydney Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED

First Exhibition, The Society of Artists, Crystal Palace Skating Rink, Sydney, 28 September – 20 October 1895, cat. 40 Australian Art, Colonial to Modern, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 October – 15 November 1985, cat. 50 (as ‘A Breezy Day in Camp’, illus. exhibition catalogue) A.H Fullwood in Australia, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 22 June – 22 July 1984, cat. 7, (as ‘A Windy Day in Camp’) A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 13, (as ‘Breezy Day in the Camp’) The Seasons in Australian Art, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 20 November 1999 – 30 April 2000 and touring, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 4 February – 19 March 2000, Old Customs House Gallery, Brisbane, 30 March – 30 April 2000, cat. 15 (as ‘Breezy Day in the Camp’, illus. exhibition catalogue), (label attached verso)

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114 PENLEIGH BOYD

(1890 – 1923) PORTSEA, 1920 oil on board 40.5 x 21.5 cm signed and dated lower right: Penleigh Boyd / 20

ESTIMATE: $18,000 – 24,000

PROVENANCE

Sedon Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso) Private collection, Melbourne Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1986 Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED

Colonial and Impressionist Paintings, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, July 1982, cat. 48 (illus. in exhibition catalogue) A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 6 The Seasons of Australia, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 20 November 1999 – 30 April 2000; and touring, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 4 February – 19 March 2000; Old Customs House Gallery, Brisbane, 30 March – 30 April 2000 (label attached verso)

LITERATURE

Shirlow, J., ‘Australian Artists. Penleigh Boyd’, The Herald, Melbourne, 30 October 1920, p. 4

115 JOHN LLEWELYN JONES

(1870 – 1927) THE MUSIC ROOM, c.1898 oil on canvas 31.0 x 25.5 cm signed lower right: J L. Jones

ESTIMATE: $5,000 – 8,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney Private collection, Sydney Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED

Australian Paintings 1850 – 1950, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, October – November 1982, cat. 18 (illus. exhibition catalogue) A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 40

LITERATURE

Art and Australia, Fine Arts Press Pty Ltd, Sydney, vol. 24, no. 3, Autumn 1987, p. 296 (illus., as ‘The Music Room’) Auty, G., et al, John Llewelyn Jones, Australia’s Forgotten Painter, Corbally Stourton Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1998, pl. 7, pp. 40, 41 (illus.)

116 HAROLD SEPTIMUS POWER

(1878 – 1951) SPANIEL, c.1935 oil on canvas 51.0 x 66.0 cm signed lower right: H. S. POWER bears inscription with title on label verso

ESTIMATE: $5,000 – 7,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection Jack Manton, Queensland Thence by descent Jennifer Manton, Sydney Estate of the above, Sydney

FREDERICK MARRIOTT

(1860 – 1941, British) A SPRING FESTIVAL, 1899 oil on canvas 92.5 x 184.0 cm signed lower right: F. MARRIOTT.

ESTIMATE: $15,000 – 25,000

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The New Gallery, London Mrs E Harry, Melbourne, acquired from the above c.1900 Thence by descent Louis Ware, Melbourne, c.1932 Thence by descent Ruth Crouch, Melbourne, 1962 Thence by descent C. Crouch, Melbourne Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 24 July 1985, lot 695 Christopher Day, Sydney, acquired from the above Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Jack Manton, Queensland, acquired from the above in 1987 Thence by descent Jennifer Manton, Sydney Estate of the above, Sydney

HENRY FULLWOOD

(1863 – 1930) CIRCULAR QUAY, c.1890 watercolour on paper 26.0 x 42.5 cm signed lower left: A. H. Fullwood

ESTIMATE: $5,000 – 8,000

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Private collection, Sydney Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED

A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 15 (as ‘Evening Scene at Circular Quay’) Bohemians of The Bush, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 June – 25 August 1991, cat. 31 (label attached verso)

LITERATURE

Thoms, A., Bohemians of The Bush: The Artists’ Camps of Mosman, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney & The Beagle Press, Sydney, 1991, cat. 31, p. 77

ARTHUR STREETON

(1867 – 1943) POSILLIPO, 1897 watercolour on paper 25.0 x 45.0 cm signed, dated and inscribed with title lower right: Posilippo [sic] / Arthur STREETON 97.

ESTIMATE: $9,000 – 12,000

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Dr Felix Meyer, Melbourne Thence by descent Private collection Christie’s, Melbourne, 14 March 1972, lot 43 Wolff collection, Sydney Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

LITERATURE

Streeton, A., The Arthur Streeton Catalogue, Osboldstone & Co. Melbourne, 1935, no. 199 (as ‘Posilippo, 1898’ (in Possession of Dr Felix Meyer)’)

120 JOHN LLEWELYN JONES

(1870 – 1927) FARMHOUSE ON THE HILL, c.1890s oil on board 20.5 x 25.5 cm signed lower right: J. LLEWELYN JONES

ESTIMATE: $5,000 – 8,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection Trevor Bussell Fine Art, Sydney Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1988 Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED

A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 39

LITERATURE

Auty, G., et al, John Llewelyn Jones, Australia’s Forgotten Painter, Corbally Stourton Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1998, pl. 14, pp. 54, 55 (illus.), and front cover (illus., detail)

121 WILL ASHTON

(1881 – 1963) FIGURES IN A PARK oil on canvas 25.5 x 34.5 cm signed lower right: WILL. ASHTON.

ESTIMATE: $3,500 – 5,500

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Sydney Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED

A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 4 (as ‘People in the Park’)

ELIOTH GRUNER

(1882 – 1939) GREY DAY, SYDNEY HARBOUR, c.1913 oil on plywood 10.5 x 23.0 cm signed lower right: E. GRÜNER inscribed verso: Sydney / Harbour

ESTIMATE: $8,000 – 12,000

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PROVENANCE

Jane Glad (née Lindsay, daughter of Norman Lindsay), Sydney Estate of Jane Glad, Sydney Warren J. Elstub Pty. Ltd., Sydney, 26 June 2000, lot 68 (as ‘Ships in the Storm’) Private collection, Sydney

We are grateful to Steven Miller, Head of the Edmund and Joanna Capon Research Library and Archive, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, for his assistance with this catalogue entry.

123 LOUIS BUVELOT

(1814 – 1888) YOU YANGS LANDSCAPE oil on board 20.5 x 30.5 cm

ESTIMATE: $8,000 – 12,000

PROVENANCE

Madame Buvelot, Melbourne Marie-Louise Bernadou, acquired from the above Thence by descent Elizabeth Bernadou, New South Wales Thence by descent Private collection, New South Wales

124 LOUIS BUVELOT

(1814 – 1888) THE TREE watercolour on paper 34.0 x 24.0 cm (sight) signed lower left: L. Buvelot

ESTIMATE: $6,000 – 9,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 26 July 1989, lot 318 Private collection, Melbourne

FREDERICK McCUBBIN

(1855 – 1917) A VIEW OF MELBOURNE FROM THE RIVER, c.1885 pencil and ink on paper 20.5 x 31.5 cm (sheet) signed lower right: F. McCubbin inscribed with title verso: A View of Melbourne from the River

ESTIMATE: $7,000 – 10,000

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PROVENANCE

Private collection Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Private collection, Sydney Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED

A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 45 (as ‘Dock Scene, Melbourne’)