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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, VICTORIA

CONRAD MARTENS
1801-1878

Thornwaite 1862

Estimate $25,000 – $35,000

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, VICTORIA

CONRAD MARTENS

1801-1878
Thornwaite 1862

watercolour and gouache on paper
signed and dated '1862 C. MARTENS' lower right
46.9 x 67.3 cm

  • Lot Sold $25,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $30,500 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (label verso)
Corporate Collection, Australia
Fine Australian & International Paintings, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 30 April 2002, lot 43, illustrated
Private Collection, Victoria

Exhibited

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

Show Catalogue Notes

Catalogue Notes

Near Scone, in New South Wales, 'Thornwaite' was the home of the Hon. Joseph Docker, early Australian surgeon, politician, photographer and painter.

This large format watercolour is listed in Martens account book on 25 October 1862 as being sold to Docker. An undated field drawing from this trip to the Upper Hunter Valley in May 1862 is in the collection of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of Elizabeth Ellis in cataloguing this work.

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Important Australian Art

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