Early Australian + International Art - 1

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ALBERT HENRY FULLWOOD (1863-1930) SYDNEY, 1896
oil on panel
13.0 × 26.5 cm
Signed and dated lower left
$22,000
A wonderful work with the typical strong paint and brushstrokes of the best impressionist works of the period. 
A similar work titled Circular Quay was exhibited own Joseph Brown exhibition in 1973

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The original woodblock for the frontispiece to Daniel Bunce's 1859 book on the Australian explorer Leichhardt.
Also comes with the woodblock for the signature seen in the frontispiece
​Sold

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Mortimer Menpes
1855 – 1938 Australian
Menpes Children, 1882
Watercolour
​11 x 15 cm
Signed upper right
Sold
*The original for the engraving listed No. 46 in Menpes Catalogue of Etched Works by Dr Gary Morgan.
A Very rare early work.

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Conrad Martens 
Tree Fern, Sydney, 1835-36
28.5 x 22.5 cm sheet size
Initialed in the plate and further inscribed by Lionel Lindsay in pencil.
Martens completed the plate for this etching circa 1835 but none were printed. In 1921 Sir William Dixon obtained the plate and allowed Lionel Lindsay to make a very small number of prints. 
See Elizabeth Ellis's outstanding book on Conrad Martens for further discussion of this exceedingly rare artwork.
SOLD

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Mortimer Menpes (1855 – 1938 Australian)
Venice
Watercolour
20.5 x 26 cm
Signed lower right
Sold

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​An orientalist oil painting on board in original frame, circa 1900.
The painting monogramed lower right ‘JA’ and frame stamped with makers name, Badir and Sons Cairo.
Frame dimension 46.5 x 41.5 cm
SOLD

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Fruhling Photographic Studio, Adelaide, SA
Overpainted photographic portrait of George Aiston in the uniform of the Adelaide Permanent Rifles, c 1899
64 x 51 cm
$2,350 incl GST 

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Horace Brodzky
Australian 1885 - 1969
Elephant Working the Fields, 1929
Watercolour and pencil on paper
35 x 43 cm framed
Signed and dated February 1929 lower left
​$1,950 incl GST
*Brodzky was at the forefront of modern art in the 1910/20's

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