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Mr William Gould (b.1803, d.1853), Artist
Production date
1851
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Painted from nature
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Measurements
1 - Painting, H: 60 x W: 72cm (H: 600 x W: 720mm); 2 - Frame, H: 78.5 x W: 91.5cm (H: 785 x W: 915mm)
Credit line
Gift, through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2004
Caroline Simpson Collection, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caroline Simpson Collection, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Painted from nature, W. B. Gould, 1851, oil on canvas in original Huon pine and gilt frame
Description
This painting is one of two acquired from the Caroline Simpson Clyde Bank collection. Both (L2005/3 and L2005/4) are still-life oil paintings of flowers and fruit, very similar in compositional details (each with a jug of tulips, roses, viola, lilac, fuchsia, ranunculi, beside a tumble of cherries, strawberries, grapes, peaches, pears etc.) and are genre pieces derived from the school of Dutch flower paintings of the 17th and early 18th centuries. They were painted in Tasmania to which place Gould had been transported as a convict in 1827. He received a Certificate of Freedom in 1835 and thereafter struggled to make a living as an artist. His repertoire included portraits, landscapes, botanical illustration as well as still lives but it was the latter which found the readiest market in mid-19th century Tasmania. His still lives of dead game were considered suitable for gentlemen's studies or games rooms, or for inns, while his still lives of flowers and fruits were regarded as desirable for middle-class dining room decoration, decorative 'furnishing pictures'.
This acquisition is part of the Caroline Simpson Collection, originally housed at Clyde Bank, an 1820s Georgian mansion in The Rocks. Clyde Bank was acquired by Caroline Simpson in 1992 and, following its conservation, opened to the public in 1996 as a showcase for her private collection of Australian colonial furniture, pictures, objets d’art and images of colonial places from around the world.
This acquisition is part of the Caroline Simpson Collection, originally housed at Clyde Bank, an 1820s Georgian mansion in The Rocks. Clyde Bank was acquired by Caroline Simpson in 1992 and, following its conservation, opened to the public in 1996 as a showcase for her private collection of Australian colonial furniture, pictures, objets d’art and images of colonial places from around the world.
Accession number
L2005/3-1:2
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