FREDERICK WOODHOUSE SNR
1820-1909

FREDERICK WOODHOUSE SNR

1820-1909
Benjamin Hepburn, Stock Agent of Ballarat 1876

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Fred Woodhouse / 1876 ' lower right
41 x 61.5 cm

• Lot Sold $26,000 (Hammer Price)
• $31,720 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Mr J.C. Ware, Yalla-y-Poora, Victoria
Mrs M. Callard, by descent
Joshua McClelland Print Room (label verso)
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 22 July 1968

Exhibited

Early Australian Paintings, Old Colonial Prints..., Joshua McClelland Print Room, 1968, no. 4
Australian Art in the 1870s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 June-2 August 1976, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 28 October-21 November 1976, no. 104 'Benjamin Hepburn, Stock Agent of Ballarat, driving a pair of greys bred by Mr John Wall: Lake Wendouree in the background' (label verso)

Literature

Colin Laverty, Australian Colonial Sporting Painters, David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, p. 31 (illustrated)