Paintings

ANON.
Cox Homestead watercolour.
1861.

Original watercolour inscribed in pencil "Cox Homestead, 1861' worn, with surface loss, an illegible signature lower...

An iconic Australian scene of a homestead with outbuildings, paddocks and horses.

The Cox family are known to...

Australian: $950 (Approx. US $991, Euro €689) Quote ref.

BOYD, Emma Minnie.
Original watercolour of the Derwent River, Tasmania.
Around Hobart, before, 1886.

Watercolour, 252 x 168 mm., tiny chip from one corner, a few spots of faint insignificant foxing yet fine, framed.

Charming watercolour study of the Derwent River with details of Hobart and Mount Wellington by Emma Minnie Boyd...

Australian: $5250 (Approx. US $5478, Euro €3806) Quote ref.

BUVELOT, Louis.
The Washerwoman.
c 1870-1875, 0.

Oil on canvas on board, 31 x 46 cm; handsomely framed.

Louis Buvelot arrived in Melbourne in 1865, where his interest in landscape inspired the next generation of Australian...

Australian: $45,000 (Approx. US $46,953, Euro €32,625) Quote ref.

Cayley, Neville Henry Peniston.
Lyrebird.
circa, 1890.

Original watercolour, 485 x 295mm, in excellent condition, signed lower right, framed.

Neville H.P.Cayley (1853-1903) arrived in Australia from England in 1885 with a well established reputation as a bird...

Australian: $11,500 (Approx. US $11,999, Euro €8338) Quote ref.

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GILL, S.T.
On South Creek.
probably 1862 or, 1863.

Original oval watercolour; 145 x 195 mm., initialled lower left, some damage around the edges from early framing.

A fine original watercolour in sepia tones by Samuel Thomas Gill, depicting a scene on James Badgery's Exeter Farm (now...

Australian: $3000 (Approx. US $3130, Euro €2175) Quote ref.

MARTENS, Conrad.
View of the Heads.
circa, 1849.

Watercolour, 284 x 450mm, signed and dated lower right. Framed

Conrad Martens (1801-1878), perhaps the best known of all colonial artists, arrived in Sydney in 1835 after working his...

Australian: $40,000 (Approx. US $41,736, Euro €29,000) Quote ref.

MARTENS, Conrad.
Watercolour of Colonial homestead.
New South Wales, circa 1840 - 1850.

Watercolour on artist's paper, 200 x 295 mm., signed "C. Martens" at lower right, fine in frame.

Conrad Martens (1801-1878) arrived in the colony in 1835 after working as an artist on board the 'Beagle' with Charles...

Australian: $14,500 (Approx. US $15,129, Euro €10,513) Quote ref.

MARTIN, H.
An Australian Rural Scene.
circa 1885, 0.

Watercolour, signed bottom right, 48 x 69cm. In a bird's eye maple frame.

A large and striking Australian landscape painting composed in a traditional style. Probably meant to handsomely...

Australian: $6500 (Approx. US $6782, Euro €4713) Quote ref.

MUNTZ ADAMS, Josephine (1862-1949).
Black and Gold. Portrait of a Woman Reading.
Melbourne, 1943.

Oil on canvas, 390 x 332 mm., signed, in original frame.

A very attractive painting by one of Australia's more mysterious painters. Although one of her close friends was...

Australian: $15,500 (Approx. US $16,173, Euro €11,238) Quote ref.

[MURRAY RIVER] UNKNOWN WATERCOLOURIST.
"Blacks [sic] Fellows Grave, Cobram Creek, River Murray SA".
South Australia, circa, 1845.

Original pen & ink and watercolour sketch, 148 x 203 mm.; small tear to margin, otherwise very good, laid down on a...

A skilfully rendered watercolour of a scene of the Murray River from the mid-nineteenth-century.

This evocative...

Australian: $4850 (Approx. US $5060, Euro €3516) Quote ref.