Paintings
Shipping on the Yarra - early Morning c.1880…
Melbourne: c.1880.
The Yarra River in Dawn Light.
Watercolour on paper, 355 x 540mm, mounted and framed; signed lower right. Julian Rossi Ashton (1851-1942) had exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London before emigrating to Australia in 1878. He first lived in Melbourne for five years before moving to...
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4504885
Point Nago Spirito Santo
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...
Price (AUD):
$16,500.00
Ref: #4306469
![Sonnenuntergang an der asiatischen... [Asian Sunset]. CANTON, Eduard HILDEBRANDT](/pictures/thumb/4504243.jpg?v=1512707460)
Sonnenuntergang an der asiatischen... [Asian Sunset].
[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...
Price (AUD):
$1,985.00
Ref: #4504243
Watercolour of Chefoo (Yantai) During the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864).
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...
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4504244
The Wreck of 'The Hereward' Maroubra Bay.
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...
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
Ref: #4209095
Fine watercolour portrait believed to be Harriette Ann Simson (1858-1942) of Launceston, Tasmania.
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...
Price (AUD):
$6,500.00
Ref: #3809895
Woman reading in an Oriental setting…
c.1890.
Reading in an Ottoman inspired Interior
Oil on canvas, signed lower right 920 x 490 mm, in original Melbourne frame. This large and attractive oil painting is in the original timber frame with the label of the Melbourne maker, W. & C. Dean, Collins Street on verso. It is...
Price (AUD):
$28,500.00
Ref: #4504862
"Sandridge Railway Jetty and Pier, Melbourne, Victoria 1858".
Melbourne: 1858.
A Victorian jewel; Port Phillip in the 1850s Gold Rush
Oil on academy board, 207 x 310 mm; signed, dated and inscribed on verso 'Artist / Mr Cust / 1858 / An Original Painting of / Sandridge Railway Jetty and Pier, / Melbourne Victoria'. A small masterpiece: "Mr."...
Price (AUD):
$148,000.00
Ref: #4504822
View from Vaucluse.
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...
Price (AUD):
$15,000.00
Ref: #4302341
Near Rokeby House.
Tasmania: circa 1890.
An atmospheric image by an accomplished artist, Tasmania's first woman journalist
Oil on canvas, 300 x 540 mm. well framed in timber; signed by the artist on verso. Mabel Hookey (1871-1953) the first woman journalist in Tasmania, was an accomplished author, photographer and poet, and as a....
Price (AUD):
$18,500.00
Ref: #4504886
"Vah-ta-ah, the Feejeean Princess".
[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...
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #4403223
"An Alluvial Diggings near Ararat, Victoria, 1858".
Ararat, Victoria, 1858.
Striking original painting of the Ararat Goldfields in 1858
Watercolour, 310 x 510 mm, heightened with white, signed and dated lower left "E. Roper 1858" A large and detailed watercolour showing Ararat at the height of the gold rush: Roper's view captures the bustle and industry, while...
Price (AUD):
$124,000.00
Ref: #4505026
Portrait of Admiral Sir George Seymour with HMS <em>Victory</em> beyond.
circa 1856-1859.
Changing the course of Pacific history
Signed and inscribed 'no 2 admiral/ Sir G.F. Seymour *.*.*./ John Lucas.' (on reverse); oil on canvas, unlined 1428 x 1118 mm. A magnificent Pacific painting: the superb large portrait of Admiral Sir George Seymour as commander-in-chief at Portsmouth.This imposing full-length portrait...
Price (AUD):
$45,000.00
Ref: #4504648
Shipping in Sydney Harbour, Government House & Fort Macquarie.
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...
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4504089
Original watercolour of a British fleet of ships among icebergs.
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...
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #4504759
View of Culborne Church…
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...
Price (AUD):
$12,000.00
Ref: #4403321
Sunset, Darling Harbor.
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...
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #2711231