[Landscape] / oil painting by A.W. Eustace

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ca. 1860's - 1870's

Graphic Materials, Paintings

442046

Paintings - 1 oil Paintings on leaf - 14 x 13.3 cm. (including stem)

Alfred William Eustace was a painter, taxidermist, and shepherd who arrived in Melbourne in 1851. At the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866 in Melbourne, he diplayed several oil paintings on gum leaves. Eustace is widely known for his painted scenes of the Australian bush on eucalyptus leaves. -- Reference: The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Scene depicts trees and a water hole in foreground with mountains in the background.

The painting is accompained by a handwritten note, "oil painting on a gum / leaf by A.W. Eustace / a Shepherd / Victoria / Australia"
The size of the leaf is too large for a gum leaf. -- Curator of Photographs, Sept. 2004
One side of the leaf is damaged and two pieces are dislodged.
For further information, see note filed at PXn 418.

Handwritten on reverse, "A.W. Eustac.. / Chiltern"