Title
An antique rural scene
1823-1824
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Classical landscape
- Date
- 1823-1824
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 67.3 x 90.3 cm canvas; 100.4 x 124.0 x 14.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated bot.c., " C L EASTLAKE...1824.". Signed l.l., "[C L E]ASTLAKE Rome ...".
- Credit
- Bequest of Amy Alfreda Vickery 1942
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 7262
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Sir Charles Lock Eastlake
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Exhibition of the British Institution 1824, British Institution, London, 1824–1824
Loan collection of paintings by British artists born before 1801, Liverpool Art Club, , Oct 1881–Oct 1881
Regency - British Art & Design 1800-1830, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 08 Apr 1998–14 Jun 1998
European Old Masters 16th-19th Century from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, , 28 Sep 2017–03 Dec 2017
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 21 publications
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Anon., Daily News, no 3152, 'Lord Orford's pictures', London, 24 Jun 1856, p 6.
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Anon., Morning Chronicle, no 17098, 'British Institution', London, 05 Feb 1824, p 3.
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Anon., Examiner, no 836, 'Fine arts: British Institution gallery', London, 08 Feb 1824, p 91.
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Anon., Times, no 22407, 'Lord Orford's collection of pictures', London, 30 Jun 1856, p 6.
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Anon., Literary Gazette, no 371, 'British Gallery', London, 28 Feb 1824, p 138.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1998, Sydney, 1998, p 53.
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Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, Contributions to the literature of the fine arts, 2nd series, London, 1870, p 194.
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 53, illus p 53.
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Algernon Graves (Compilator), The British Institution 1806-1867: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from the foundation of the Institution, Bath, 1969 {reprint}, p 174.
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Algernon Graves, A century of loan exhibitions, 1813-1912, 5 vols, London, 1913-1915, vol 4, 1914, p 1902.
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Anon ('R H')., Examiner, no 839, 'Fine arts: British Institution gallery', London, 29 Feb 1824, p 139.
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 76, no 593, illus p 76.
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Christopher Menz, Regency - British Art & Design 1800-1830, Adelaide, 1998, p 61, no 102.
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W F Rae, Fine Art Quarterly Review, 'Sir Charles Lock Eastlake', Jun 1866, pp 52–75: p 75.
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Bernard Rigby, Look, 'Colour me classical: more than a painter of pretty pictures', Sydney, Oct 2007, p 23, col illus p 23.
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David Robertson, Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian art world, Princeton, 1978, p 255 under 1823.
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Catalogue of a loan collection of paintings by British artists born before 1801, Liverpool, 1881, p 21, no 196.
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Art and Australia, vol 10, no 1, Art Gallery of New South Wales special number, Sydney, Jul 1972, pp 63–75: p 64.
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A catalogue of the works of British artists place in the gallery of the British Institution Pall-Mall for exhibition and sale, London, 1824, p 27, no 343.
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Catalogue of a highly important collection of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and English pictures including the celebrated Rainbow Landscape by Rubens and other works of nearly equal importance...removed from a noble mansion in the country, London, 26 Jun 1856-28 Jun 1856, p 19, no 250.
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Catalogue of the collection of modern pictures of the British and continental schools of John Dickinson, esq, deceased, late of Park House, Sunderland, London, 04 Dec 1909, p 7, no 33.
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Provenance
Horatio Walpole, circa 1824, Painted for Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (1783–1858). His (anon) sale, Christie's, London, 26–28 June 1856, 3rd day, no 250 ('A classical landscape, with Arcadian figures near a terminal statue; buildings, and mountainous distance. A beautiful composition, painted at Rome').
Pennell, 28 Jun 1856-pre 1881, London/England, Purchased at the previous sale, 170 gns.
George Comer, pre 1881, By 1881. See exhibitions.
John Dickinson, pre 04 Dec 1909, sold by him at Christie's, 4 Dec 1909, no 33. Purchased at this sale for 13 gns by Newman
Newman, post 04 Dec 1909, Purchased at the previous sale for 13 gns.
Amy Alfreda Vickery, pre 1942, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Bequest of Amy Vickery 1942