Watercolours of the Canterbury Estate in Ashfield, ca 1860 by Conrad Martens

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ca 1860

Graphic Materials, Drawings

1344408

The Canterbury estate, Ashfield was acquired by Robert Campbell of Wharf House in 1803 from William Cox. Robert and Sophia Campbell's daughter Sarah married Arthur Jeffreys. Canterbury House, formerly at George’s River Road, Canterbury, was built ca 1850 by Edmund Blacket for the Jeffreys. It was demolished in 1928 by its then owners, the Presbyterian Church, for residential subdivision. The Miss Campbell who commissioned the watercolours was Sophia Ives Campbell, Sara Jeffreys’ sister.

Source:
Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis. State Library of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1994, p.180-181.

Major Frederick Fanning, thence by descent. Christie’s, Melbourne, 10-11 April 2006, lot 11. Private collection, Queensland.

4 watercolours documenting the Canterbury estate in the Ashfield area of Sydney before residential subdivisions began occurring in the 1920s. The watercolours depict civic progress; with roads, bridges, churches and estates with grand houses set in harmonious grounds and picturesque landscapes.

Item 01: The Lodge, A, Jeffries [sic] Esq., Canterbury House, ca 1860 / by C. Martens

Item 02: Canterbury House, the drive, ca 1860 / by Conrad Martens

Item 03: Canterbury House, the seat of Mr Arthur Jeffries [sic]: garden vista, ca 1860 / by Conrad Martens

Item 04: St Paul's Canterbury, ca 1860 / by Conrad Martens

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