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Elizabeth Gould
Elizabeth Gould (née Coxen) 1804-1841
Procellaria glacioloïdes, Smith. Silvery-grey petrel 1840Pencil and watercolour on wove paper
​(watermarked ‘J.Whatman / 1837’)
35.5 x 51 cm
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Fredereric Garling
Frederick Garling (1806 – 1873)
City of Hobart entering Sydney Heads
Watercolour
Image: 30 x 46 cm
Frame: 67 x 84.5 cm
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Frederick Woodhouse

Falcon, sired by Warhawk and out of May Queen by Forester, led a very successful racing career. He won many major races in addition to the Adelaide Cup. These included the 1863 Ballarat Handicap and Great Centre Handicap, 1864 Melbourne Helter Skelter Stakes, Autumn Handicap and Derby Stakes, 1865 Grand Stand and Trial Stakes and the 1866 Free Handicap. He was placed widely, including 3rd in the 1866 Melbourne Cup. > read research 
Hergott
Josef David Herrgott (1823-61)
Colonial wax relief
Acquired by the National Museum of Australia
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Samuel Knights, Bolardo
Samuel Salkeld Knights (c. 1818-1880)
Boiardo
Oil on canvas, 75 x 62 cm
Inscribed with title on stretcher and signed 'S. S. Knights, Geelong, 1858'
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SS Knights
Samuel Salkeld Knights (c. 1818-1880)
​An Australian Colonial Sporting Artist.
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William Buelow Gould
William Buelow Gould
Gould arrived as a convict in Tasmania in 1827. He had been sentenced to transportation for theft and was to spend the rest of his life in the colony. Gould is best known for his oil paintings of still-life subjects but it is his rare, finely detailed, watercolours which demonstrate his skill as a highly accomplished natural history painter. > read research
Henry Glover, William Ashton
Henry H. Glover
William Baker Ashton, First Governor of Adelaide Goal, c.1849
Early portraits held in private hands depicting people of importance in the fledgling South Australian community are particularly rare, and even more so when the artist is known. This recently discovered artwork by Henry Glover depicting William Ashton is a welcome addition to the pictorial archive of early South Australia and further develops our knowledge regarding both the artist and sitter.
Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. > read research
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Aboriginal Kimberley Heads
In 1984 Britain‘s Lord McAlpine, a frequent visitor to Western Australia who invested heavily in the Kimberley region through the company Australian City Properties, visited what was then known as La Grange Mission on the Western Australian Coast near Broome.
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Aboriginal Breastplate
Aboriginal Breastplates
Widely presented by the European settlers to the indigenous people of Australia in the nineteenth century.
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Thomas Clark
Thomas Clark 
Clark made painting the Wannon Falls his speciality and several views by him of the Wannon Falls are known, including a very similiar work that is now in the Australian National Gallery.
Acquired by the Hamilton Art Gallery
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Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Reunion of Eros and Psyche, and Lothaire of Bourgogne.
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Horace Brodsky
Horace Brodsky 
Brodsky was noted for its modernity when artists such as Hans Heysen were still painting the traditional gum trees of the outback.
Acquired by the National Gallery of Australia
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Thomas Lyttleton
Thomas Hamilton Lyttleton 1826 - 1876
Lyttleton was one of early Australia's finest steeple chase riders and painters.
Acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia
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George Johnston jr
George Johnston Junior 
Earliest known artwork produced in Australia by a person born in the colony of European descent".
Acquired by the State Library of NSW
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Henry Gordon Horsford Sandeman
Henry Gordon Horsford Sandeman 1856 – 1919
Gathering for the Start of the Christmas Handicap Burenda Races, Queensland, 26 December 1874

There are only a few known oil paintings, all small in size, by Harry Sandeman but his painting of the Gathering for the Start of the Christmas Handicap and the illustrations found in his journal indicate that he was a very competent artist that drew faithfully what he observed. Horse racing was obviously a favourite pastime as all known paintings by him are of horse related subjects and he often mentions his horsemanship skills in his journal entries. > read research
Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples
Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples
Off Adelaide, 1880 
Robert Ponsonby Staples was born in 1853 and inherited his father’s baronetcy in later life. He trained initially as an architect and then studied at the Louvain Academy of Fine Art in Belgium, followed by more studies in Dresden and then Brussels and London and was strongly influenced in his artistic endeavours by his visits to Paris. 

Off Adelaide, 1880 is one of the earliest true plein-air artworks painted in Australia: an “ oil sketch of a landscape…, painted quickly to capture the moment, and without the ‘finish’ of a conventional easel painting”. > read research
Conrad Martens
Conrad Martens
This rare early work by Conrad Martens depicts Trevallyn, 
the property of Mr George Townshend.
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Nicholas Chevaller
Nicholas Chevalier
Mount Abrupt, Grampians painted circa 1864.
Acquired by the Hamilton Art Gallery
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