Shooting Near Heidelberg
Henry Rielly
Details
- Artist
- Henry Rielly
- Title
- Shooting Near Heidelberg
- Year
- 1875
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 53 x 82 cm
- Details
signed lower right: Henry Rielly
Provenance
unknown
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, November 1985
private collection, Melbourne
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1988
private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
19th and 20th Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1998
Further Information
Henry Rielly arrived in Australia with his family as a child. He was a foundation member of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870 and exhibited with them between 1870 – 1895. His work was also included in the Melbourne Exhibition Building in 1872, an exhibition which toured to London the following year; the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879; and the Calcutta Exhibition in 1883-84. He later moved to Queensland, in 1885, probably to be closer to his sisters, Louisa and Isa (who were both also artists) and exhibited with the Queensland Art Society between 1892 – 1902. The move may also have been prompted to seek a warmer climate following tuberculosis. Rielly died in Brisbane Hospital, aged only 47.
Rielly is known to have exhibited watercolours and oils depicting landscapes, around Melbourne, north-east Victoria and later Stanthorpe, Qld. His work has been compared with other nineteenth century artists including Buvelot, H.J. Johnstone and J.W. Curtis and described as being expressive, intimate and at times, having an air of melancholy.
His work is represented in the National Gallery of Victoria and the Queensland Art Gallery.