Mount Wellington from Ridgeway Reservoir

Haughton Forrest (1826-1925)

Mount Wellington from Ridgeway Reservoir

oil on board
30.0 x 45.5 cm

Provenance:
Private collection

Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 21 August 2001, lot 247

Private collection, Tasmania

Reference:
This work is to be included in the forthcoming publication: Ayling, G. & Smith, I., Haughton Forrest (1926-1925) Biography, Catalogue and Gallery of Paintings (2 vols.), The Forrest Project, 4th edition, 2021, cat.HF4.1.052

Related Works:
Ridgeway Reservoir [finished study], oil on board, 30.0 x 45.0 cm, private collection; illus. in Brown, G. & Diggins, L. (eds.), Haughton Forrest 1826-1925, Malakoff Fine Art Press, Melbourne, 1982, p.27

View of Mount Wellington from Springs, oil on board, 30.0 x 45.5 cm, private collection. This is the summer version of the present work; both paintings were used by the Tasmanian Government to issue postage stamps between 1898 and 1911.

Estimate: $15000 - 25000

Result Hammer: $15000