View of Hobart Town, with Mount Wellington in the Background 1856

EUGENE VON GUERARD (1811-1901)

View of Hobart Town, with Mount Wellington in the Background 1856

oil on canvas
61.0 x 91.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: Eugene de/ Guerard/ 1856.

Provenance:
The artist
Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety, Founder of Dalgety and Co., 'Lockerley Hall', Hampshire, England
Thence by descent, private collection
Christie's, Melbourne, 29 April 1996, lot 72
The Collection of John Schaeffer, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Mr Macfarlane's, carver and gilder, Collins Street, Melbourne, May - June 1856
Victorian Exhibition of Art, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, December 1856, no.23
Geelong Mechanics' Institute Exhibition, Geelong, March 1857, no.140 (as Hobart Town from Kangaroo Flat)
Eugene von Guerard, Australian National Gallery & Australian Gallery Directors' Council touring exhibition, 1980 - 1981

Reference:
The Age, 3 June 1856, p.3
Newsletter of Australasia, January 1857, p.2
Illustrated Journal of Australasia, January 1857, no.7, p.45
Bruce, C., Eugene von Guerard, Australian National Gallery & Australian Gallery Directors' Council, Canberra, 1980, p.103
Bruce, C., Comstock, E. & McDonald, F., Eugene von Guerard, 1811-1901: a German Romantic in the Antipodes, Alister Taylor, Martinborough, New Zealand, 1982, cat.25 (illus. col.pl.9)
Bonyhady, T., 'Eugene von Guerard's South Australia', Imprint, June 1987, vol.22

Related Works:
A View of Geelong 1856, oil on canvas, 89.0 x 154.5 cm, Geelong Gallery, Victoria (sold Christie's, Melbourne, 29 April 1996: $1,982,500 IBP), illus. in Pullin, R., Eugene von Guerard, Nature Revealed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p.117
Warrenheip Hills near Ballarat 1854, oil on canvas on plywood, 46.0 x 75.5 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, illus. in Pullin, R., Eugene von Guerard, Nature Revealed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p.111
Tower Hill 1855, oil on canvas, 68.5 x 122.0 cm, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria (on loan from the Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) - now the Department of Environment and Primary Industries), illus. in Pullin, R., Eugene von Guerard, Nature Revealed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p.115
Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges 1857, oil on canvas, 92.0 x 138.0 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, illus. in Pullin, R., Eugene von Guerard, Nature Revealed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p.159
The Basin Banks, near Camperdown 1857, oil on canvas, 35.0 x 56.5 cm, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, illus. in Pullin, R., Eugene von Guerard, Nature Revealed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p.144
Purrumbete from across the Lake 1858, oil on canvas, 51.0 x 85.5 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, illus. in Pullin, R., Eugene von Guerard, Nature Revealed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p.187
Hobart Town from the Kangara Point, 15 May 1855, pencil, 26.5 x 34.5 cm, Dixson Galleries, Sydney
Hobart Town, from Kangaroo Point, Tasmania 1867, colour lithograph, 30.5 x 48.5 cm, illus. in Tipping, M., Eugene von Guerard's Australian Landscapes, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1975, p.54, pl.6 (illus. p.55)

Estimate: $1200000 - 1800000

Result Hammer: $1,472,727 including BP