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Parramatta - close to Billyards bungalow - Xmas 1879
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Title:
Parramatta - close to Billyards bungalow - Xmas 1879 / R. Ponsonby Staples
Creator:
Staples, Robert Ponsonby, Sir, 1853-1943.
Date:
1879
Format:
1 painting: oil on wood panel ; 24 x 32 cm.
Inscription:
Inscribed in pencil, lower left: 'Parramatta - close to Billyards bungalow - Xmas 1879'. Another painting by Staples on the back of this picture is inscribed: 'At Billiards (sic) house, about Xmas 1879, Parramatta / R. Ponsonby Staples'.
Subject:
Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta, NSW
Description:
The artist Robert Ponsonby Staples, was born Dundee, Scotland, in 1853, third son of Sir Nathanial Staples, 11th Baronet. He received most of his education in Europe, chiefly in Belgium including art training at the Academy of Fine Arts, Louvain, followed by training in Dresden, Paris and London. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy London in 1875.
Staples visited Australia in 1879-1880 and was evidently a guest of the Billyard family at Elizabeth Farm while they were lessees of the property from the Macarthur family from 1875 to 1881.
Provenance:
Phillips Auctioneers (London) 'Oil paintings, drawings and watercolours from the studio of Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, Bt. (1853-1943) 11 June 1991, lot 135.
Source:
Elizabeth Farm ; EF92/30 ; acquired with assistance from the Friends of Elizabeth Farm
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 Museums of History NSW to request permission.
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
31746
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