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 John Schaeffer collection, Sydney Private collection, Sydney Menzies, Sydney, 23 September 2014, lot 45 Company collection, Victoria

Exhibited:

Mr Macfarlane’s, Melbourne, May - June 1856 Victorian Exhibition of Art, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, December 1856, no.23 Geelong Mechanics’ Institute Exhibition, Geelong, March 1857, no.140 (as Hobart Town from Kangaroo Flat) Eugene von Guérard, Australian National Gallery & Australian Gallery Directors’ Council Touring Exhibition, 1980 - 1981

Reference:

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 Guérard, Australian National Gallery & Australian Gallery Directors’ Council, Canberra, 1980, p.103 Bruce, C., Comstock, E. & McDonald, F., Eugene von Guérard, 1811-1901: A German Romantic in the Antipodes, Alister Taylor, Martinborough, New Zealand, 1982, cat.25 (illus. pl.9) Bonyhady, T., 'Eugene von Guerard's South Australia', Imprint, vol.22, June 1987

Related Works:

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: $1250000 - 1750000

Result Hammer: $1250000