Bay St Brighton
Henry Burn
Details
- Artist
- Henry Burn
- Title
- Bay St Brighton
- Year
- 1860
- Medium
- watercolour and gouache on paper
- Size
- 15.5 x 25.5 cm
- Details
signed lower right: Hen Burn 1860
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Provenance
The George Page-Cooper Collection Leonard Joel, Melbourne,
12-22 November 1967, lot 97
private collection
by descent
Sunday Fine Art Auction, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, March 2012
private collection, Melbourne
Literature
Illustrated Melbourne Post, 22 November 1862, reproduced in an engraving by Samuel Calvert p.7 & p.4 as ‘Brighton and the Bay’
Further Information
Burn arrived in Melbourne in 1853 and was to depict the growing city and surrounding districts. Bay St Brighton has a beautiful luminous quality, the incidental elements of the herding sheep provoking an atmosphere of reminiscence and providing a narrative element against the details of the landscape.
Burn’s many asethical appealing views of Melbourne, are of historical interest, capturing well-known areas of Melbourne and its surrounds. Here, Bay St Brighton depicts a train, in the middle ground, on the newly opened railway line, which, from 1859, ran from Melbourne to Brighton.