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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  24 Aug 2021 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  63
• Lot Description:
  Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
  (British, 1794-1847)
  Robert Kennedy Nuttall Profile, c.1842
  pencil and watercolour on paper laid on card with additional pink wash background, added by the subject's son George in 1895
  16.0 x 12.5cm (6 5/16 x 4 15/16in).
• Provenance:
  Robert Kennedy Nuttall, Tasmania; thence by descent within the Nuttall Family (label attached verso); Private collection, United Kingdom
• References:
  Andrew Motion, Wainewright the Poisoner, Faber and Faber, London, 2000, pp. 239, 246, 252, 258, 262, 267, 270 ; Jane Stewart, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright: Paradise Lost, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania, 2021, pp. 182 (illus.)
• Notes:
  Having remained within the Nuttall family since creation, there is a handwritten label attached verso to the profile written by George Henry Falkiner Nuttall, Robert Kennedy Nuttall's son, who inherited the profile. It reads: Robert Kennedy Nuttall. born in Bray Co. Wicklow Ireland 9 April 1815 died in San Francisco California 21 May 1881. This profile drawing was made about the year 1842 in Van Diemansland by the celebrated Convict Thos Griffith Wainewright. The paper having grown brittle and been torn, the writer saved it by mounting it on a card & carefully painting in the coloured background so as to bring out the head more clearly. This is the only profile portrait of R.K.N. G.H.F.N. 1895
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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