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Courtyard gate with Herculium bloom, 1920 / E.T. de Closay
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Title:
Courtyard gate with Sterculacia in bloom, 1920 / E.T. de Closay
Creator:
de Closay, E. T. (Tiger) (Ernest Henry Leopold), 1859-1936.
Date:
1920
Format:
1 painting : oil on card ; 29.5 x 37 cm.
Inscription:
Signed 'Tiger' lower right and dated '1920'.
Subject:
Vaucluse House (Vaucluse, N.S.W.)
courtyards
Brachychiton acerifolius
Illawarra flame trees
Description:
This picture is one of three sold to the Vaucluse Park Trust in November 1926 by the artist, Ernest 'Tiger' de Closay, a Mauritian-born painter, etcher and commercial artist who came to New South Wales around 1900. He was a designer of postcards as well as being a member of the Australian Painter Etchers Society, exhibiting at the third annual exhibition of the Society in Sydney in July 1923. His earlier work includes oil paintings of orientalist and classical subjects painted in the 1890s.
Although he was born in Port Louis, Mauritius, in July 1859, and his mother was a Mauritian, his parents had been married in Pondicherry in India and the family moved to Madras when Ernest was a child. His baptismal name was Ernest Henri Leopold de Closets, presumably anglicised to de Closay when he came to Australia from India.
The painting depicts the kitchen wing of Vaucluse house, and the entrance to the courtyard from the carriage loop. The flowering tree, still in the garden, is an Illawarra flame tree, Brachychiton acerifolius, part of the Sterculiaceae family.
Provenance:
Ernest Tiger de Closay, 1926; Vaucluse Park Trust.
Source:
Vaucluse House ; V89/69
Rights:
You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact the Historic Houses Trust to request permission.
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
31426
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