View of Hobart Town

Details

Artist

Knud Geelmuyden Bull

Title

View of Hobart Town

Year

1853

Medium

oil on canvas

Size

35.7 x 49.4 cm

Details

signed lower right: K Bull 1853
verso: label: Hobart, Tasmania / sent by John Roberts / to his brother Robert (RJRII) / in about 1840s.
label: This painting of Hobart in about 1845...sent to my father the Rev R Roberts by / brother John Roberts
label: distressed Obiturary notice for John Roberts, Hobart, September

Stock Number

290053

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Acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

Provenance

John Roberts

The Reverend R J Roberts

by descent to Robert Halliley

Australian Art Auctions, Sydney, 10 September 1979, cat. no. 16, item 175

Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne

Frederick Bladin, Melbourne

The Estate of the late Frederick D. Bladin, Christies, Melbourne, 2 April 2003, lot 22

private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of Australia, Melbourne, 1866

Australian Colonial Art, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 28 April - 23 May 1980, cat. no. 23
''The Painted Vision: 1840 - 1963'', Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 2009

Further Information

In the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.