Bomera and Clopee, Potts Point, [between 1856 and 1878] / by George F. Halsted

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fonds

[between 1856 and 1878]

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

1011232

1 watercolour - 26 x 47 cm

George Frederick Halsted was an artist who painted Sydney and other scenes in oil and watercolour during the 1850s to 1880s. He exhibited with the NSW Academy of Arts, the Agricultural Society of NSW and the Art Society of NSW.

The Italianate villa Bomera was designed by surveyor and architect John Frederick Hilly and built in 1856 for colonial merchant William McQuade. In 1878 an upper veranda with cast iron supports was added to the northern side and a ballroom was added to the southern side. Following McQuade's death in 1885 the Bomera estate was divided among the family and his son built Tarana, another villa, to the immediate north of Bomera. After acquisition by the state government in 1910, the house was used as a boarding house and during World War II as naval headquarters, and is now in private ownership.

Clopee was built in 1855 and has since been demolished.

References:
Design and Art Australia Online. https://www.daao.org.au (accessed 29 August 2017)
"Bomera" & "Tarana" 1 Wylde Street. http://trees.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au (accessed 14 September 2017)

Watercolour on paper of the view from Garden Island looking across Woolloomooloo Bay towards Potts Point, showing the two marine villas Clopee, on the left, and Bomera. In the gardens of Bomera are a small summer house and a waterfront building, possibly a bathing pavilion. Two of the buildings in the background are probably Hyde Park Barracks and the ruins of the Garden Palace.

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Signed lower left 'F. Halsted'

Dated from time between erection of Bomera and addition of ballroom