Sponsor a Painting Campaign
In October 2018, over 300 works from the Library’s unique collection of oil paintings went on permanent public display in a dedicated picture gallery on the first floor of the Mitchell building. Paintings from the Collection has enjoyed critical acclaim and proved to be extremely popular with Library visitors.
In the lead up to the unveiling of Paintings from the Collection, the Foundation launched a special campaign to support the conservation and interpretation of the works selected for display. We invited donors to ‘sponsor’ these paintings and were overwhelmed by the wonderful response. Over 60 works have now been supported, with nearly $400,000 raised.
The paintings on display tell the story of our nation – its people and places, from early settlement to contemporary times: portraits as diverse as Phillip Parker King, Dame Mary Gilmore, Margaret Fink and Maria Little of Yulgilbar; evocative rural landscapes; studies of Sydney Harbour; and streetscapes showing life in our developing cities and suburbs. However, for many donors it was a personal connection to a painting that inspired them – a place associated with their family; a view from their house; a portrait of a person they admire; a seascape that reminded them of a loved one; a town in which they grew up.
To learn more about current opportunities to support our oil painting collection, please visit Sponsor a painting.
The State Library of NSW Foundation wishes to warmly thank the following donors who have supported this campaign:
David W Anstice AO and Ana-Maria V Zaugg
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, c 1785, attributed to Gilbert Stuart
John Atkin and Judy Haddrick
View at Burrundulla, farm of George Cox, Mudgee, New South Wales, 1841, by Conrad Martens
Dr Charles Barnes
Stockyard, near Jamberoo, 1886, by Charles Edward Conder
Stoneleigh, Beaufort near Ararat, Victoria, 1866, by Eugene von Guérard
View in Sydney Harbour, c 1880, by Margaret I Coulter
View of Murrengenberg Mountain and Bundawang Mountain, from a drawing by Robert Hoddle, c 1852–83, by Thomas Clark
View of Proposed Town of Adelaide, c 1836, by William Light
Christine Bishop
View above Rose Bay, 1841, by Conrad Martens
Rosemary Block, Emeritus Curator
Hobart Town, taken from the garden where I lived, 1832, by John Glover
John and Lyn Boyes
View of old Government House, Sydney, NSW as it appeared when vacated by Sir George Gipps in 1845, 1845, by George Edwards Peacock
Charlene and Graham Bradley AM
Sydney — Capital New South Wales, c 1800, by unknown artist
Mark, Jane and Liam Bradley
Clyde Street, c 1901, by Sydney Long
Robert Cameron AO and Paula Cameron
Ford on the Lower Hunter, c 1840s, by Joseph Docker
Sydney Harbour near Watson’s Bay, 1851, by George Edwards Peacock
Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM and Mrs Christine Clancy
Picnic at The Rocks, 1952, by Roland Wakelin
Mrs Wendy E Clarke
Sarah Cobcroft, 1856, by Joseph Backler
Pauline and Rob Conolly
One of the NSW Aborigines befriended by Governor Macquarie, c 1810–21, by unknown artist
In memory of Dennis Leland Craney
Brush scene, Brisbane Water, 1848, by Conrad Martens
Jennifer Crivelli
Sydney Cove, c 1800, by unknown artist
In memory of Michael Crouch AC
The Founding of Australia. By Capt Arthur Phillip RN Sydney Cove, Jan 26th 1788, 1937, by Algernon Talmage RA
Rowena Danziger AM and Ken Coles AM
Cabbage trees near the Shoalhaven River, New South Wales, 1860, by Eugene von Guérard
Sunset in New South Wales, 1865, by Eugene von Guérard
Sydney from Bell Mount, 1813, by Stephen Taylor
Ms Marilyn Endlein
Sydney Heads, c 1850, by unknown artist
Mr John Fairfax AO and Mrs Libby Fairfax
Mount King George from the Bathurst Road, 1848, by Conrad Martens
Justice Peter Garling and Mrs Jane Garling
Captain John Piper, c 1826, by Augustus Earle
Peter J Hack
Governor Bourke’s statue, overlooking the Harbour, 1842, by Conrad Martens
In Memory of Lawrence C Hinchliffe
Port Jackson NSW. The Floating Light — (Morning), 1846, by George Edwards Peacock
Virginia Howard and Bill Taylor
A day's picnic on Clark Island, 1870, by Montagu Scott
Patricia Jacobsen
Jane Elizabeth Blaxland, c 1835, by unknown artist
Justice François Kunc and Ms Felicity Rourke
AB Paterson, ‘Banjo’, 1927, by Agnes Noyes Goodsir
Macquarie Group
Untitled, possibly Lachlan Macquarie, c 1805–24, by unknown artist
Robin Mathews
Sydney Harbour looking towards the Heads, 1848, by Jacob Janssen
Gai McGrath and Allan Florance
View from the window, 1842, by Conrad Martens
Ian and Helen McLachlan
David Scott Mitchell, c 1925, by Norman Carter
Sydney from St Leonards, 1841, by Conrad Martens
Samantha Meers AO
In Cumberland Street, c 1902, by Alice Muskett
Dr Wendy Michaels
Millicent Preston-Stanley, 1950, by Mary Edwards
Nick and Caroline Minogue
Florence Rodway, c 1910, by Norman Carter
Anne and Don Munro
Edward DS Ogilvie, 1894–95, by Tom Roberts
Sankar Narayan
Sydney Harbour looking west, 1848, by Jacob Janssen
David O'Halloran and Jillian Clarke
Corroboree at Newcastle, c 1818, by Joseph Lycett
Alice Arnott Oppen OAM
Victoria 1st, 1841, by Maurice Felton
Mrs J Thomond Priestley
Mrs F O’Brien, 1841, by Maurice Felton
Susan Sawyer
The Swimming Enclosure, 1941, by Herbert Badham
Ian and Gay Southwell
Captain Arthur Phillip, c 1787, by Francis Wheatley
The ‘Vineyard’, Parramatta, 1840, by Conrad Martens
Anne Sullivan
Arrival of Burke & Wills at Flinders River 1861, 1862, by Edward Jukes Greig
Anne, Tom and Oliver Swain
Customs House and Circular Quay, Sydney NSW, 1845, by George Edwards Peacock
Rob Thomas AO
A gleam of light, c 1910, by Frederick McCubbin
A direct north general view of Sydney Cove…, 1794, by unknown artist
Kyrenia Thomas
View of the Heads of Port Jackson NSW looking north from a hill above Vaucluse Bay, 1846, by George Edwards Peacock
Andrew Thomas
Sydney from Sandy [Rose] Bay, 1840, by Conrad Martens
Edward Thomas
The Heads of Port Jackson NSW from off the North Head — a squall, 1846, by George Edwards Peacock
Hugh Thomas
George Street, Sydney, 1883, by Alfred Tischbauer
Simon Thomas
Gold diggings, Ararat, c 1858, by Edward Roper
Alan Walker
Picnic at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, c 1855, by unknown artist
Vashti and Michael Waterhouse
Ferry Lane, c 1902, by Sydney Long
Westpac
Bank of New South Wales Sydney [George Street Sydney], c 1855, by unknown artist
Caroline Wilkinson OAM
Male and female red kangaroos in a Liverpool Plains landscape, c 1819, attributed to JW Lewin
Boating scene in Sydney Harbour, before 1926, by Alfred James Daplyn
Kim Williams AM and Catherine Dovey
Maria Little, c 1895, by Tom Roberts
Anonymous
View of Arthursleigh, 1839, by Conrad Martens
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