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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

Robert Neill
1801-1852

ABORIGINES OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND 1828

Estimate $180,000 – $250,000

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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

Robert Neill

1801-1852
ABORIGINES OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND 1828

oil on board
signed and dated 'R Neill 1828.' lower left
22.7 X 29.8CM

  • Lot Sold $180,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $219,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Mr A.B. Jones, Hobart Town
Topographical, Colonial and British Paintings, Phillips, London, 10 March 1989, lot 49, 'Natives Unloading the Catch', illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Robin Hood's Gallery of Fine Arts, Somerset House, Hobart Town, 19 March - 16 April 1851

Literature

Gallery of Fine Arts', The Hobart Town Courier, Hobart Town, 22 March 1851, p. 2
Margaret Glover, 'Neill, Robert', in Joan Kerr (ed.), The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992, p. 565 (illustrated)

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Catalogue Notes

We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of John McPhee in cataloguing this work.

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AU0779  |  27 Aug 2013  |  Sydney
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