J.C. WAITE
1832-1920

PROPERTY FROM THE JULIAN & MIRIAM STERLING COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

J.C. WAITE

1832-1920
Melbourne (1888)

oil on canvas
signed 'J.C. Waite' lower right
104 x 153 cm

Provenance

Private Collection
Australian Painting, Christie's Australia, Melbourne, 12 March 1971, lot 156, 'Port Melbourne' illustrated
Mr Julian Sterling and Mrs Miriam Sterling, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above

Exhibited

Centennial International Exhibition, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1 August 1888 – 31 January 1889, no. 132
J.C. Waite, R.B.A., Guild Hall, Melbourne, 11 April – 2 May 1908, no. 2, 'View of Melbourne (Before the Boom)', 100 gns
J.C. Waite, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 16-31 July 1914
Catalogue of Paintings by J C. Waite, R.B.A., Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 16-28 February 1920, no. 1, 'Yarra, Melbourne', 65 gns
Catalogue of Paintings by J C. Waite, R.B.A., Anthony Hordern & Sons, Sydney, 17 September 1921

Literature

The Argus, Melbourne, 11 September 1888, p. 33
'The Melbourne Exhibition', The Illustrated Sydney News, Sydney, 27 September 1888, p. 6
A. Colquhoun, 'Pictures on View. Mr. J.C. Waite Exhibition', The Herald, Melbourne, 16 July 1914, p. 10
A. Colquhoun, 'Mr. J.C. Waite's Paintings', The Herald, Melbourne, 16 February 1920, p. 10
'Art of J.C. Waite', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 7 September 1921, p. 7