Coolangatta / Howard Joseland

P1/2429

fonds

probably between 1897 and 1900

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

9679286

1 watercolour - 25 x 18 cm

Richard George Howard Joseland was born on 14 January 1860 in Claines, Worcestershire, England, first emigrating to New Zealand in 1886 and then to Australia in 1888. On 13 September 1888, he married Isabella Alice Taylor (1862-1891). Having worked as an assistant in several architectural firms in England, Joseland met Walter Vernon and, in 1890, was invited to take over his practice. On 6 April 1897, he married Blanche Augusta Hay (1870-1954) whose half-brother had inherited the Coolangatta Estate nrar Berry, New South Wales. From 1898, Joseland worked as an architect in Sydney and from 1900 he lived on Burns Road, Wahroonga in a house he self-built. He died on 20 July 1930 in Darlinghurst.

Source:
Australian Dictionary of Biography. "Richard George Howard (Howard) Joseland (1860-1930)". Accessed 22 March 2024. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/joseland-richard-george-howard-howard-6886

Purchased by the vendor at auction in 2006. Possibly previously exhibited as "Coolangatta" in Exhibition of Watercolours of Canberra, etc by H. Joseland, Swain's Art Gallery, Sydney, 1927

Watercolour of the house on Coolangatta Estate in Coolangatta, New South Wales, the first settled area on the South Coast. Howard Joseland worked as an architect on the estates of Alexander Berry, who established Coolangatta in 1822.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Titled "Coolangatta" in lower left corner. Signed "H. Joseland" in lower right corner.

Date range based on years in which Joseland was most likely in Coolangatta, between his marriage to Blanche Hay in 1897 and his taking up residence in Wahroonga in 1900.