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Lot #24 - Charles Edward Hern

  • Auction House:
    Mossgreen
  • Sale Name:
    The Alan & Margaret Hickinbotham Collection
  • Sale Date:
    25 Jun 2017 ~ 2pm (Australian Central Standard Time)
  • Lot #:
    24
  • Lot Description:
    Charles Edward Hern
    (1820-1875)
    (The Grose Valley from Govett’s Leap), 1880
    watercolour
    41.5 x 67 cm
    signed and dated lower left: C.E. Hern / 1880
  • Provenance:
    Thirty Victoria Street, Sydney
  • Exhibited:
    A Selection of Paintings and Prints, Thirty Victoria Street, Sydney, Summer 1974; (possibly) Melbourne International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1 October 1880 – 30 April 1881, New South Wales Court, class 407 as ‘Govett’s Leap Gorge’
  • References:
    A Selection of Paintings and Prints, Thirty Victoria Street, Sydney, 1974, (illustrated), (unpaged); (possibly) ‘The Exhibition’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 11 May 1880, p. 7 as ‘Govett’s Leap Gorge’
  • Notes:
    Related Work: Govett’s Gorge, Looking Toward the Valley of the Grose, New South Wales, 1879, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘The earliest evidence we have found of Charles Herns artistic activity is a watercolour in the Mitchell Library, a closely finished marine piece of Cornish fishing boats dated 1873. By 1876 Charles Hern was in Sydney for in that year he painted a watercolour of Careening Cove. In this work, painted with minute attention to detail, Hern seems to have been striving for geographical accuracy. A panoramic view of Sydney Harbour, is painted in the same manner. In 1880 Hern exhibited four watercolours in the New South Wales Court of the Melbourne International Exhibition. In the same year he contributed an Australian scene to the inaugural exhibition of the art society of New South Wales. Hern was very active within the Society, being the Honorary Treasurer in 1881 on the committee in 1883 and an exhibitor in the first three exhibitions. In the early 1880s John Sands published two series of chromolithographs of Australian scenery after Hern’s originals: Six Views of the Hawksbury River, and Six Views of Blue Mountain Scenery. By October 1883, Charles Hern was living in London, evidently he became an instructor in watercolour painting to the daughters of Edward VII, (then Prince of Wales) so he may have returned to England to take up the appointment. Between 1884 and 1893 he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the New Watercolour Society. From the titles of his RA exhibits, and the works sent to the Art Society of New South Wales from 1885-7, it seems that he was concentrating on marine subjects and picturesque views.’1 1 Taken from, A Selection of Paintings and Prints, Thirty Victoria Street, Sydney, 1974, (illustrated), (unpaged)
  • Estimate:
    A$20,000 - 30,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Art

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