Painting
Watercolour
Maker & role
Mr Ernest Tiger de Closay (b.circa 1859, d.1936), Artist; W.G. Cockell
Production date
circa 1925
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Object detail
Title
End of stables with bougainvillea
Production place
Collection
Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 39 x W: 38cm (H: 390 x W: 380mm)
Signature & marks
Signed 'E. T. de Closay' lower left
Label to reverse side 'Academy Arts Pty Ltd' etc.
Label to reverse side 'Academy Arts Pty Ltd' etc.
Credit line
Purchase, 1926
Vaucluse House Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Vaucluse House Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Description
This picture is one of three sold to the Vaucluse Park Trust in November 1926 by the artist, Ernest 'Tiger' de Closay, a Mauritian-born painter, etcher and commercial artist who came to New South Wales around 1900. He was a designer of postcards as well as being a member of the Australian Painter Etchers Society, exhibiting at the third annual exhibition of the Society in Sydney in July 1923. His earlier work includes oil paintings of orientalist and classical subjects painted in the 1890s.
Although he was born in Port Louis, Mauritius, in July 1859, and his mother was a Mauritian, his parents had been married in Pondicherry in India and the family moved to Madras when Ernest was a child. His baptismal name was Ernest Henri Leopold de Closets, presumably anglicised to de Closay when he came to Australia from India.
the 1890s.
Although he was born in Port Louis, Mauritius, in July 1859, and his mother was a Mauritian, his parents had been married in Pondicherry in India and the family moved to Madras when Ernest was a child. His baptismal name was Ernest Henri Leopold de Closets, presumably anglicised to de Closay when he came to Australia from India.
the 1890s.
Accession number
V89/1-1:2
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