On the Yarra
Henry Easom Davies
Details
- Artist
- Henry Easom Davies
- Title
- On the Yarra
- Year
- 1867
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Size
- 45 x 31 cm
- Details
signed lower left (on tree trunk): HED 1867
Provenance
unknown
private collection, Melbourne
Leski Auctions
private collection, Melbourne
Further Information
Henry Easom Davies arrived in Melbourne in the 1850s where he lived for the remainder of his life, capturing the landscapes of Melbourne in his watercolours and regularly exhibiting. He lived at St Kilda between 1853 and 1868 and was commissioned by the British government to record the Colony of Victoria. A work titled A View of the Yarra was on view at Mr Maclachlan’s in Collins Street in May 1859. He worked as drawing master at the Church of England Grammar School from around 1858 until his premature death in 1869. Davies is represented in the La Trobe Library by a watercolour, View on the Yarra, near Richmond , acquired for the Victorian National Collections in 1870.