Early Australian + International Art - 1

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William Buelow Gould
​William Buelow Gould (Australia, 1803-1853) 
Still Life, Fruit & Flowers,1851
Oil on canvas on board
61.5 x 74 cm
Signed & dated lower left
Listed in: Darby, Garry, The Life & Work of William Buelow Gould. Copperfield Publishing Co. Pty Ltd, 1980, Cat. no. C.R.138.

Provenance: The Collection of Frederick Gordon Stebbings (1921-2005) & Margaret Frances Stebbings, Launceston, almost certainly by descent from James Stebbings, convict, who arrived Hobart Town 1824 aboard the Chapman.

Gould’s still-life paintings of this period are recognised as his most accomplished work and very few exist, particularly those containing both flowers and fruit in the image. Of the known paintings almost all are held in public collections. Related works from the same period are in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and the National Gallery of Australia.

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Fullwood
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

Mortimer Menpes
MORTIMER MENPES
Australian 1855-1938
 A FAMILY IN KASHMIR, circa 1890.
Signed lower right
Oil on panel in original frame
Image: 21.5 x 26.5cm Framed: 36 x 41.5cm
Provenance: James Stark, Norwich
Sale, Christie's, London, 22 November 1918, lot 137
Sale, Phillips, Oxford, 4 June 1987, lot 63

Exhibited:
Paintings, Drawings, Etchings and Diamond Points on Ivory of India, Burma and Cashmere, Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell's Galleries, London, 1891, cat. no. 137.
The World of Mortimer Menpes, Painter, Etcher, Raconteur, 2014, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Illustrated in colour in the catalogue, pp. 81 & 195.
$24,500 incl GST

Trafalgar Nelson
Portrait of Captain William Gordon Rutherford, RN 1764-1818, who commanded the Swiftsure at Trafalgar and was a personal friend of Nelson’s. The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich holds a later reproduction portrait of Rutherford.
Oil on canvas.
​70 x 54cm                     

$2,850 incl GST
Menpes
Mortimer Menpes
1855 – 1938 Australian
Menpes Children, 1882
Watercolour
​11 x 15 cm
Signed upper right
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*The original for the engraving listed No. 46 in Menpes Catalogue of Etched Works by Dr Gary Morgan.
A Very rare early work.
Rupert Bunny
Rupert Bunny
Australian 1864 -1947
 Sea and Hills
 Oil on canvas
Artist's monogram lower left
50.5 x 65 cm
 
Provenance: Mrs Arnold M. Johnson. Macquarie Galleries, Sydney. Private collection. Christies, Melbourne, 3 May 1988, lot 150. Private collection, Adelaide. 

Exhibited: Exhibition of Paintings by Rupert Bunny, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 26 July - 8 August 1944, cat. 6.  
Rupert Bunny Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1 Oct - 18 Nov 1946, cat. 13. 
Literature: Clive Turnbull and Tristan Buesst, 'The Art of Rupert Bunny', Ure Smith Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1948, p. 74. 
David Thomas, 'The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonne', Thames and Hudson, Melb., 2017, vol. 2 cat. O716.

$24,500 incl GST
Surgeon Grenadier Guards
Early 19th Century Portrait of Brigade Surgeon
James Johnstone of the Grenadier Guards.
Watercolour 
​40 x 32 cm                      
$885 incl GST
Shell portrait arcimboldo
A very rare early shell portrait of a Satyr in the style of Arcimboldo.
Eighteenth Century or earlier in original re-decorated frame.
Image: 47 x 37cm. Frame: 69 x 59cm.
Provenance: Ex. the collection of Martyn Cook, prominent antique dealer and collector.
​$3,250
Conrad Martens
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.
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Brodzky
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
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*Brodzky was at the forefront of modern art in the 1910/20's
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