Portrait of the Artist's Son, Caleb c1905

TOM ROBERTS (1856-1931)

Portrait of the Artist's Son, Caleb c1905

oil on canvas on board
91.5 x 61.0 cm

Provenance:
Collection of the artist
Thence by descent, Caleb Roberts
Mrs. Joshua McClelland, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1960 (accession no. 824, label attached verso)
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 10 March 2004, lot 63
Private collection, Sydney, 2004
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Townsville Art Gallery, Queensland, 1969
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland, 1971-72

Reference:
Tom Roberts letter to S. W. Pring, 8 February 1905, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, MSS 1367/2
Spate, V., Tom Roberts, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1972, p.150 (catalogued as painted in 1908)
Topliss, H., Tom Roberts 1856-1931: A Catalogue Raisonn\xE9, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, 2 vols.; vol.1, p.177, cat.395 (illus. vol.2, plate 177)

Related Works:
Sketch of Caleb Roberts, c1905, oil on wood panel, 34.5 x 29.5 cm, private collection, illus. in Topliss, H., Tom Roberts 1856-1931: A Catalogue Raisonn\xE9, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, 2 vols.; vol.1, p.177, cat.395a

Estimate: $40000 - 60000