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WILLIAM BUELOW GOULD (1803-1853), PAIR OF STILL LIFE STUDIES
WILLIAM BUELOW GOULD (1803-1853), PAIR OF STILL LIFE STUDIESEstimate $8,000 – $12,000
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- Lot Sold $9,500 (Hammer Price)
- $11,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
oil on canvas
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24 BY 29CM (EACH)
The Tasmanian convict artist Willam Buelow Gould is best known for his paintings of fruit and flowers (in the decorative style of the English potteries where he once worked) and still lifes of dead game (mostly hares and pheasants). He also produced a celebrated sequence of natural history watercolours of endemic Tasmanian fish and plants, painted while on assignment to surgeon and amateur naturalist Dr James Scott 1829-1832; the former being celebrated in Richard Flanagan's award-winning novel Gould's Book of Fish (2001). In the present lot, Gould's avian and piscatorial interests are combined in a charming pendant pair, both in their original colonial plaster-gilt frames.
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