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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  February 2016 Antique & Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  16 Feb 2016 ~ 10am (NZ time) (Lots 1 - 334)
  16 Feb 2016 ~ 5pm (NZ time) (Lots 340 - 683)
• Lot #:
  658
• Lot Description:
  Walter Withers
  (1854-1914 Australian)
  The Cottage, Creswick Victoria
  oil on canvas
  180 x 260.
  unsigned
• Provenance:
  The Collection of Samuel (Sambo) Albert Edmonds, Private Collection, New Zealand.
• Notes:
  During the late 1880's, 1890's and earlier years of the twentieth century, Samuel Edmonds was employed as the manager of the Creswick branch of the Bank of Australasia. During his residency he was also a keen landscape painter. Norman Lindsay in his autobiography 'My Mask (pp 28-29)' states - 'There was a middle aged bank manager in Creswick named Edmonds who practised landscape painting as a hobby and who sometimes had painters from Melbourne staying with him. Walter Withers was one and a watercolourist Miller Marshall.' The Withers Miller Marshall residency saw Withers pupils include Norman Lindsay, Percy Lindsay and Lionel Lindsay. Daryl Lindsay in his memoir (The Leafy Tree, p33) states 'Sambo Edmonds, the manager of the Bank of Australasia was another bachelor who gave select dinner parties for four. His hobby was painting. At the disposal sale of his effects after he died, I purchased all his old paint brushes which had been kept in perfect condition.
• Estimate:
  NZ$9,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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