South America: 7 January 1832.
Original panorama from the Beagle voyage
Original watercolour, 85 x 390mm., inscribed "Point Naga S.65.W. H.M.S Beagle Jan 7 1832" lower left; "Spirito Santo 3.20 distant 5 miles" lower centre; on verso inscribed "Fanny 1836"; backed on tissue and mounted. This superb coastal profile is... More
Melbourne: circa 1875.
Buvelot's tranquil study of figures in landscape
Oil on canvas on board, 31 x 46 cm; signed with initials LB lower left; handsomely framed. A tranquil and sunny landscape typical of the best painting of Louis Buvelot.Buvelot arrived in Melbourne in 1865, where his interest in landscape... More![Sonnenuntergang an der asiatischen... [Asian Sunset]. CANTON, Eduard HILDEBRANDT.](/pictures/thumb/4504243.jpg?v=1512707460)
[Canton]: circa 1863.
Old Canton through European eyes
Watercolour on paper, 210 x 300 mm; signed in pencil; mounted. Charming and atmospheric watercolour of the Guangzhou area, depciting the Pearl River at sundown, looking towards old Canton, with the Chigang Pagoda and the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees seen... More
Yantai, Shandong Province, China: 23 June 1860.
HMS Gunboat Opossum during the Taiping Rebellion
Watercolour, 230 x 380 mm, signed and dated ("Lindesay Brine fecit June 22 1860"); mounted. An attractive and skillfully executed drawing heightened with watercolour. Two Chinese figures carrying baskets have been sketched in the foreground but... More
circa 1898.
The Maroubra Bay shipwreck
Watercolour, 18.2 x 54 cms. mounted and framed. This watercolour is signed lower left, M Clarke and was painted as the clipper ship Hereward lay on its side wrecked at Maroubra Beach NSW. The Hereward had blown onto soft sand at the northern end... More
Launceston: Circa 1875.
A fine Colonial portrait with Tasmanian interest
Watercolour portrait, 18 x 14.8 cm (mount size), very fine; preserved in a handsome folding travelling folder of burgundy roan, lined with green moire silk, gilt, the picture surround with gilt fillets and blind-embossed. A remarkable portrait in fine original... More
Unsigned: c. 1800-1820.
Beautiful depiction of traditional Inuit seal hunting
Watercolour on laid paper, 193 x 185 mm, mounted. A very finely painted depiction of a traditional Greenlandic Inuit hunter after harp seals in his distinctive hunting kayak. The unsigned watercolour is of considerable quality and style, and depicts an... More
Sydney: circa 1857.
Looking from Vaucluse to Mosman
Oil painting on papered boards, 31.3 x 61 cms. in an early gilt frame, signed lower right F. Halsted. The artist George F. Halsted worked in Sydney from the 1850s to the 1880s. It is thought that he may have been the... More
[England]: no date but 1857.
From Vah-ta-ah to Lydia: cannibals rejoice
Oval portrait Baxter print in the original timber frame, 145 x 125 mm., modern labels pasted to back;. A most attractive Baxter print of a "Feejean Princess". This image was included as the frontispiece to a book on Fiji... More![Portrait of Admiral Sir George Seymour with HMS Victory beyond; [together with] HMS Collingwood off Bora Bora. Sir George. LUCAS SEYMOUR, John Lindsay, Robert Strickland Thomas THOMAS.](/pictures/thumb/4504648_01.jpg?v=1525756093)
circa 1856-1859; 1848.
Changing the course of Pacific history
[1] Signed and inscribed 'no 2 admiral/ Sir G.F. Seymour *.*.*./ John Lucas.' (on reverse); oil on canvas, unlined 1428 x 1118 mm. Circa 1856-59; [2] Signed lower right, inscribed on stretcher, oil on canvas, unlined 514 x 722 mm. 1848... More
Sydney: circa 1850.
Government House and Fort Macquarie from the Harbour
Oil on artists' board, 139 x 291 mm. An attractive nineteenth century painting of Sydney and its Harbour. In the foreground sits a three-masted schooner under sail, whilst to the left can be seen Government House and to the... More
circa 1793-, 1797.
By an artist for Flinders and Bligh
Watercolour, oval shape, 132 x 195 mm., tipped on to card, in gilt frame. A finely executed watercolour of a fleet amidst icebergs. Although unsigned, this watercolour was originally found in a nineteenth century album with another of very similar... More
at sea: 1847.
Original voyage watercolour album
Oblong watercolour album of 20 sheets, well preserved in original papered boards with green calf backstrip. Album of evocative views of Central America and the Pacific by an unknown artist, recording the 1847 cruise of HMS Calypso in the Pacific and South America... More
Somerset: circa 1840.
A rare original watercolour by one of Australia's celebrated artists
Original sepia watercolour with manuscript title in Wallis's hand, 167 x 368 mm, mounted. Inscribed lower right by James Wallis, "View of Culborne Church and Bristol Channel, Somersetshire". Wallis arrived in Sydney in February, 1814 in charge... More
Sydney: circa 1910.
Sydney's merchant marine at dusk
Original watercolour on artist's watercolour board, 240 mm. x 530 mm.; signed 'J.H. Young', dated '24.4.10' on the verso, framed. A fine watercolour of Darling Harbour, by well-regarded turn-of-the-century Sydney artist John Henry Young. This atmospheric watercolour, imbued with the pink light... More