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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Art | Australian | International | Aboriginal Auction
• Sale Date:
  14 Sep 2020 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  6010
• Lot Description:
  Charles Edward Hern
  (1848-1893) Britain/Australia
  View across the Harbour to Cremorne Point, Bradley's Head & Manly beyond 1883
  Watercolour
  15 x 30.5 cm
  Signed & dated lower left; Label verso
  Condition: Good colour, no visible foxing, original framing
• Notes:
  Hern arrived in Australia in 1873. A landscape painter in watercolour, Hern was an active member of the NSW Academy of Arts, 1873-1880 & of the Art Society of NSW, 1880-1883. His (work was) carefully finished & detailed watercolours & includes panoramas of Sydney Harbour & the Blue Mountains, & lithographs from his original views. He returned to England in 1883 & became an instructor in watercolour painting to the daughters of Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, & exhibited with the RA & the Royal Society of British Artists 1884-1893. McCulloch, A. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, p. 514
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 4,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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