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
circa, 1868.
Fine pair of marine views by a master of the genre
Two oil paintings on board, each measuring approximately 310 x 415 mm; mounted and framed, Two fine maritime oil paintings by Oswald Brierly (1817-1894) with a desirable provenance: until recent times both were housed in the collection... More
Melbourne: c.1870-, 1875.
Buvelot's tranquil study of figures in landscape
Oil on canvas on board, 31 x 46 cm; 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 inspired the next generation of Australian... More![Sonnenuntergang an der asiatischen... [Asian Sunset]. CANTON, Eduard HILDEBRANDT.](/pictures/thumb/4504243.jpg?v=1495689977)
[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
1880.
A fine New South Wales painting by a pupil of Conrad Martens
Watercolour, 43 x 65 cm. signed and dated 1880 lower right, mounted and framed. This lovely watercolour is of a picturesque valley in the hills to the western side of the Great Dividing Range of New South... More
circa 1820.
Australian butterflies collected on the Uranie voyage
Watercolour on sheet of laid paper, 245 x 195 mm., paper watermarked "Edmeads & Pine 1798"; framed. A sheet of butterfly watercolours by Jacques Arago, depicting specimens from "Ile de France" and "Nouvelle Hollande".Jacques Arago (1790-1855) joined the Freycinet expedition in... More
Sydney: c. 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
London: June, 1823. Watercolour over pencil on artist's board, 195cm x 235 mm., signed Paul Fischer, lower left, and dated; in original frame. London, June 1823. A charming portrait of Kuper as a young man in naval uniform. Kuper served as first lieutenant under Captain Bremer on the Alligator, and... 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
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
Victoria: 1861.
Pioneering education in the Dandenongs
Oil on canvas, 245 x 345 mm, signed and dated lower centre; fine ornate contemporary gilt frame with the original Collins Street Melbourne framer's label on verso. A superb and fresh oil painting from the collection of the esteemed Melbourne art dealer, Joseph... 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
Heidelberg: circa 1894.
Box Hill pastorale
Oil on canvas on board, 55 x 65.5 cm, signed 'Walter Withers' lower left; framed. A fine Walter Withers landscape portrait of Box Hill near Heidelberg, with the Dandenong Ranges visible in the distance. Widely regarded as a pre-eminent Australian landscape painter of his... 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