Painting
Maker & role
Mr Ernest Tiger de Closay (b.circa 1859, d.1936), Artist
Production date
1920
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Object detail
Title
Courtyard gate with Sterculacia in bloom
Production place
Collection
Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 29.5 x W: 37cm (H: 295 x W: 370mm)
Subject Place
Signature & marks
Signed 'Tiger' lower right and dated '1920'.
Credit line
Purchase, 1926
Vaucluse House Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Vaucluse House Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Courtyard gate with Sterculacia in bloom
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 painting depicts the kitchen wing of Vaucluse house, and the entrance to the courtyard from the carriage loop. The flowering tree, still in the garden, is an Illawarra flame tree, Brachychiton acerifolius, part of the Sterculiaceae family.
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 painting depicts the kitchen wing of Vaucluse house, and the entrance to the courtyard from the carriage loop. The flowering tree, still in the garden, is an Illawarra flame tree, Brachychiton acerifolius, part of the Sterculiaceae family.
Accession number
V89/69
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