Copy photographs of views near Port Macquarie, New South Wales, by Mrs Collett (A. S. R. Wauch), and a view of sailing ships by Conrad Martens, 19th century

PXA 7231

fonds

1974 [copies of original watercolours dated 19th century]

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9647444

5 photographs

Anna Sarah Rachel Wauch (1828-1904), a painter, was the eldest of four children of Captain Andrew Wauch of the 48th Regiment of Foot and Mary Makin, née Gillot, who arrived in New South Wales in March 1836. The family settled at Wauchope near Port Macquarie. Anna married Spencer Collard, a settler from the New England area, in St Peter’s Church of England, Armidale, on 6 February 1855. She was also known as A. S. R. Wauch, A. S. R. Collard, and Mrs Collard. The watercolour scenes painted near Port Macquarie were attributed by Mrs H. Massie, the owner of the originals, to 'Mrs Collett [sic], the daughter of Major Waugh [sic] after whom Wauchope was named’ (Source: Library correspondence file - note dated 24 Sept. 1971). A watercolour by the same artist showing three horses, a dismounted rider and his Aboriginal guide at the edge of a river was offered at Sotheby’s (Australia) in 1984 from the Cowlishaw Collection. A Mrs Collard of Carcoar won second prize in an art competition held in 1881. Mistakenly reported as 'Miss’ Collard, her picture of 'a duel between two horses engaged in deathly combat’ was reputedly later exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

References:
Design & Art Australia Online. https://www.daao.org.au/ (accessed 30 October 2019)
Library correspondence file

1. Dismounted rider fighting with aborigine. Near Port Macquarie, no date / Mrs Collett.
The original is unsigned, undated and untitled. Artist and location supplied by owner of originals.

2. Two horsemen with aborigine viewing countryside, in mountains near Port Macquarie, no date / Mrs Collett.
The original is unsigned, undated and untitled. Artist and location supplied by owner of originals.

3. Three horsemen mustering horses. Near Port Macquarie, no date / Mrs Collett.
The original is unsigned, undated and untitled. Artist and location supplied by owner of originals.

4. Three horses in flooded paddock. Near Port Macquarie, no date / Mrs Collett.
The original is unsigned, undated and untitled. Artist and location supplied by owner of originals.

5. Sailing ships in rough sea, no date / Conrad Martens.
The original is signed 'C. Martens. but appears to be undated and untitled.

Copy photographs of watercolour of Sydney Harbour, 1889, by R. Martens (SPF/Sydney - Harbour & Islands, 1889) and Dismounted rider with horse in mountains near Port Macquarie by Mrs Collett (SPF/Horse, n.d.) not located October 2019. Reference copy of Dismounted rider with horse in mountains near Port Macquarie by Mrs Collett (SPF/Horse, n.d.) available in Pictures Copying scheme volumes held in the Mitchell Library.

Nos. 1-4 transferred from SPF/Horse, n.d. and no. 5 transferred from SHIPS FILE/Sailing Ships, n.d..
Transferred from the Small Pictures File (Self Indexing File), Mitchell Library Reading Room, 2013.