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Lot #573 - George Frederick Gregory

  • Auction House:
    Mossgreen
  • Sale Name:
    Australian & Colonial History
  • Sale Date:
    28 Jun 2016
  • Lot #:
    573
  • Lot Description:
    George Frederick Gregory
    (1821-1887) (Attrib.)
    Geelong Hunt Club Meeting at The Wallington Hotel, circa 1861
    watercolour
    34 x 65 cm
    Inscribed verso to an old document fragment: “Meeting of hounds at Wallington Hotel - period about 1854
  • Provenance:
    Purchased by the present owner from ‘Joshua McClelland Print Room, 81 Collins Street, East, Melbourne, C.1, 63 - 5835, Oct.6, 1967”
  • Notes:
    Note on the purchase receipt reads “Watercolour, “Geelong Hunt Club meeting at the Wallington Hotel, 1861.” (The licencee of the hotel, on the Bellarine Peninsula, is shown as W. Lawrence; according to the records he was there only between 1861 and 1863. The Geelong Advertiser, of June 5, 1861 refers to a watercolour by Mr. George Gregory of a Hunt meeting in the Bream Creek area, which may well be this one. This painting was formerly in the possession of Mr. James Wilson, founder of the well-known St. Albans turf and race-course at Ocean Grove.
  • Estimate:
    A$5,000 - 8,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Art

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