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• Auction House:
  Leonard Joel
• Sale Name:
  Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  15 Sep 2015 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  114
• Lot Description:
  Baron Paszthory
  (c.1867-1946)
  Portrait of Dr. Louis Lawrence Smith c.1890s
  oil on canvas laid on board
  134 x 107cm
  signed lower left: Baron Paszthory
• Provenance:
  Dr. L. L. Smith, Melbourne Thence by descent
• References:
  Poynter, J., The Audacious Adventures of Dr. Louis Lawrence Smith, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2014
• Notes:
  Born in England, Dr Louis Lawrence Smith migrated to Australia at the age of twenty-two. The son of a theatre impresario, Smith appeared to have inherited his father's entrepreneurial spirit, setting up a medical practice in Bourke Street and offering postal consulations with a fee of 1 guinea for prescriptions. Smith's rooms also included a Museum of Anatomy which was later closed on the claim of it offending taste! For many years Smith was Chairman of the Melbourne Exhibition Building and aside from his medical duties, he also became a farmer, vigneron and author, capped off with a forty year-long political career that included representing the seat of Richmond in 1871-74 and 1877-83.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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