Robert Neill
1801-1852
ABORIGINES OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND 1828
Estimate $180,000 – $250,000
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
Robert Neill
1801-1852
ABORIGINES OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND 1828
oil on board
signed and dated 'R Neill 1828.' lower left
22.7 X 29.8CM
- Lot Sold $180,000 (Hammer Price)
- $219,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Mr A.B. Jones, Hobart Town
Topographical, Colonial and British Paintings, Phillips, London, 10 March 1989, lot 49, 'Natives Unloading the Catch', illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Robin Hood's Gallery of Fine Arts, Somerset House, Hobart Town, 19 March - 16 April 1851
Literature
Gallery of Fine Arts', The Hobart Town Courier, Hobart Town, 22 March 1851, p. 2
Margaret Glover, 'Neill, Robert', in Joan Kerr (ed.), The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992, p. 565 (illustrated)
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