Caroline Simpson Collection

Lyons Terrace, Hyde Park, Sydney, 1844 / Jacob Janssen

Janssen, Jacob, 1779-1856.

1844

1 painting : watercolour with pen and ink ; 22.2 x 32.5 cm.

Signed and dated in ink lower right "J. Janssen 1844". Inscribed in pencil on verso "Bildgrosse [size of picture] 22.2 x 32.5 [cm] / Blattgrosse [sheet size] 27.8 x 38.5 [cm]".

Liverpool Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
terrace houses
colonial settlements
Lyons Terrace (Sydney, N.S.W.)

Jacob Janssen, landscape, still-life and portrait painter, was born in 1779 at Einlage, Prussia. In 1807 he travelled to the United States, passing through Copenhagen, Lisbon and Boston before settling in Philadelphia where he took drawing classes from Signor Ancora, a member of the School of Naples. Over the following decades he lived for varying lengths of time in Rio de Janeiro, Calcutta and Manila before landing in Sydney in December 1840. He died in Sydney in July 1856.
Lyons Terrace, five houses at the southern end of Hyde Park, were built in 1839-1841 for an influential and wealthy auctioneer and business man - and former convict - named Samuel Lyons. The architect John Verge noted the preparation of plans for the terrace in his ledger for February 1837 but tenders were not called for the houses until January 1839, and then by John Bibb since Verge had by then retired from practice. Lyons Terrace was demolished in parts, the first section going in 1910.

Joshua McClelland Print Room (Melbourne) 1959; Caroline Simpson Collection, Clyde Bank, The Rocks, Sydney, 2001-2004.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; L2007/87

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