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Landscapes

Unknown artist, Picnic at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, c 1855

This lively painting of an Anniversary Day regatta dates from the mid-1850s.

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‘E F B’, Old Domain Baths, 1881

Located on the western side of Woolloomooloo Bay, now the site of the Andrew ‘Boy’ Charlton Pool, this attractive har

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Attributed to JW Lewin, Male and female red kangaroos in a Liverpool Plains landscape, c 1819

John Lewin, a natural history illustrator, was the first free professional artist to migrate to New South Wales, arri

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Stephen Taylor, Sydney from Bell Mount, 1813

Stephen Taylor worked in England from 1807 to 1849 and produced this early depiction of Sydney Harbour in 1813, despi

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unknown artist, View of a coastline, possibly the Illawarra, c 1845

Once attributed to the 1840s travel artist, George French Angas, this oil by an unknown artist seems to depict Five I

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Unknown artist, Old St Phillip’s, Church Hill, undated

St Phillip’s at Church Hill, with its distinctive, almost 50-foot high (15 metre) crenelated tower, stood near Lang P

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Charles Edward Conder, Stockyard, near Jamberoo, 1886

Jamberoo is a town in the rolling hinterland behind Kiama on the NSW south coast.

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Frederick Strange, Launceston, 1860

Frederick Strange sailed from England to Hobart as a convict in 1838.

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Castle Rock, Cape Schanck, Victoria, 1865 / by Nicholas Chevalier

Nicholas Chevalier, Castle Rock, Cape Schanck, Victoria, 1865

Castle Rock sits off Cape Schanck at the southernmost tip of the Mornington Peninsula, separating the wild ocean wate

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Thomas Clark, View of Murrengenberg Mountain and Bundawang Mountain, from a drawing by Robert Hoddle, c 1852-83

Robert Hoddle, a surveyor who worked in country NSW in the early 1830s is best known for his involvement in the layin

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Thomas Clark, Unidentified landscape from a drawing by Robert Hoddle, c 1837–81

Robert Hoddle, a surveyor who worked in country New South Wales in the early 1830s is best known for his involvement

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Joseph Docker, Ford on the Lower Hunter, c 1840s

Joseph Docker was an English surgeon, politician, landowner and amateur photographer who moved to Sydney in 1834.

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Conrad Martens, Brush scene, Brisbane Water, 1848

Within months of arriving in Sydney in 1835, Conrad Martens became a frequent traveller, in search of picturesque sub

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Conrad Martens, View of Arthursleigh, 1839

Conrad Martens travelled to southern New South Wales, as far as Goulburn, in 1836 and visited Arthursleigh Station.

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Conrad Martens, Gibraltar Rocks, Arthursleigh, 1839

In August 1836 Conrad Martens travelled widely across the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, in search of pictur

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Conrad Martens, New Government House, 1841

Construction began on a new Government House for Sydney in 1836, designed in England in Gothic-revival style.

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Portraits

Unknown artist, Phillip Parker King, c 1817

Pictured here in a black coat and white cravat is Phillip Parker King, a naval officer and hydrographer.

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Richard Noble , Commander Robert Johnston RN, 1856

Artist Richard Noble was one of the most accomplished portrait painters working in Sydney in the 1850s.

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Cornelius Delohery, Self-portrait, 1855

Cornelius Delohery started public service in NSW as a government letter-carrier in 1830 and a short time later was st

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Unknown artist, One of the NSW Aborigines befriended by Governor Macquarie, c 1810–21

This mysterious portrait of an unknown, young Aboriginal man is believed to have belonged to Governor Lachlan Macquar

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Fortescue Hitchins, Emma, Harriet, and Fanny Samuell, c 1857

The three daughters of Edward Samuell, a successful Sydney publican, are (from the left), Emma, Harriet and Fanny, at

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Augustus Earle, [Captain John Piper  , ca. 1826

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Norman Carter, David Scott Mitchell, c 1925

In 1925 the Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales commissioned Norman Carter to paint a portrait of David

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Frances (Mrs Edward Gostwyck) Cory, late 1820's / oil portrait by unknown artist

Unknown artist, Frances Cory (Mrs Edward Gostwyck), c 1820s

This rare early colonial likeness shows Frances ‘Fanny’ Cory at about 28 years of age.

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After William Owen, Colonel William Paterson, c 1799

Captain William Paterson, soldier, explorer and naturalist, arrived in the colony, with his wife Elizabeth, in Octobe

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Unknown artist, Portrait of Mrs William Paterson, c 1799

At the age of 19, Elizabeth married 34-year-old soldier Captain William Paterson in 1789.

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unknown artist, Portrait of Emily Macpherson, c 1870s

Emily Macpherson, born in 1863, was the mother of artist and architect, John D Moore and grandmother of photographer,

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unknown artist, Child in carrying cloak, c 1850

This portrait of an unnamed baby is highly unusual and goes against 19th century portraiture convention by showing su

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Thomas James Lempriere, George William Evans (possibly), 1847

Thomas James Lempriere was born in Hamburg in 1796 and came to Van Diemen’s Land in 1822.

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Joseph Backler, James Sinclair, 1846

James Sinclair, a proud Scot, settled in Goulburn with his wife in 1843, having arrived in New South Wales in the lat

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Joseph Backler, Christina Sinclair, 1846

Christina Sinclair was the wife of James Sinclair, a prominent builder in Goulburn.

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[Alexander Sinclair], 1846 / oil portrait by Joseph Backler

Joseph Backler, Alexander Sinclair, 1846

Alexander Sinclair was born in Goulburn in 1844 and died at five years of age in 1849.

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Cityscapes, seascapes, studies of Sydney Harbour and interiors

Sydney Long, Argyle Street and Cut, c 1902

Sydney Long, born in 1871, studied at the Art Society of NSW School under Alfred Daplyn and Julian Ashton.

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A painting of a family, colour-themed in reds and greens.

Herbert Badham, Domesticity, 1959

Herbert Badham (1899–1961) was an Australian realist painter.

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Sydney Long, The Sailors Return Hotel, 1902?

To sponsor this painting, 

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Old houses in Wentworth Street / Howard Ashton

Howard Ashton, Old Houses in Wentworth Street, c 1901

Howard Ashton, the eldest child of artist and teacher Julian Ashton, came with his family to Melbourne from England i

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