DOI Heft:
No. 260 (November 1914)
DOI Artikel:Moore, William: Some notes on the national gallery of New South Wales
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0139
The National Gallery of New South IVales
audience was Lady Hamilton, wife of Sir Robert only been represented by a single sketch, so the
Hamilton, the then Governor of Tasmania; and it studies of coster girls should be a welcome ad-
was at her suggestion that the monochrome paint- dition to the black-and-white section. May spent
ings illustrating the lecture were purchased by the about three years in Australia and did an enormous
Government by special vote of Parliament. When amount of work while he was on the staff of the
he went to Sydney the Trustees of the Gallery " Bulletin." It was here that he learnt the trick of
commissioned the painter of mountains to paint elimination, which he subsequently adopted with
Mount Kosciusko, the highest peak in Australia, such extraordinary success. "Perhaps I should
Subsequently he spent a year in England and had say that the printing machines of the Sydney
three of his English landscapes engraved by Henry Bulletin were my real master," he once confessed
Graves, and before returning to Australia had the to " M. A. P. " in relating the days of his youth,
satisfaction of learning that one of his works had " They were utterly unsuitable for the printing of
been hung at the Salon. work in which the value of light and shade was
The new purchases made by Mr. Mann for the pre-eminent, and so I was driven to the resort of
gallery include : a bronze reproduction of Rodin's expressing what I had to express in the fewest
well-known work The Kiss ; a bronze group, possible lines, but that was only the first year, after
Femina Viclrix, by W. Reid Dick, which was that the printing was beyond reproach." May was
shown at the last Academy ; the painting, Fiquet, a prominent figure in Sydney during the flourishing
by Campbell Taylor; a portrait of H. B. Irving, by period between 1887 and 1897, when not only
R. G. Eves; a portrait of Lady Ulrica Buncombe, leading Australian painters but such interesting
by J. J. Shannon, R.A.,
and original drawings by-
Phil May. The painting
of The Australian Fleet
entering Sydney Harbour,
October 4, ipfj, by Arthur
J. W. Burgess, was a com-
mission from the Trustees.
The Kiss, which is well
known through reproduc-
tions, is the fourth work
by Rodin which has been
bought for Australia. The
other three are : The Little
Lion, a bronze statuette, a
bronze head of Jean Paul
Laurens (replica of the
original in the Musee du
Luxembourg, Paris) and
the marble Minerve sans
casque (a replica), all of
which were purchased by
the Trustees of the Felton
Bequest for the Melbourne
Gallery. Mr. Eves's por-
trait should have a per-
sonal, as well as an artistic,
interest, as Mr. Irving re-
cently toured through
Australia and was invited
to lecture on Hamlet at
the universities at Sydney
and Melbourne.
Hitherto Phil May has portrait of h. b. irving, esq. hy r. n. eves, r.b.a.
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audience was Lady Hamilton, wife of Sir Robert only been represented by a single sketch, so the
Hamilton, the then Governor of Tasmania; and it studies of coster girls should be a welcome ad-
was at her suggestion that the monochrome paint- dition to the black-and-white section. May spent
ings illustrating the lecture were purchased by the about three years in Australia and did an enormous
Government by special vote of Parliament. When amount of work while he was on the staff of the
he went to Sydney the Trustees of the Gallery " Bulletin." It was here that he learnt the trick of
commissioned the painter of mountains to paint elimination, which he subsequently adopted with
Mount Kosciusko, the highest peak in Australia, such extraordinary success. "Perhaps I should
Subsequently he spent a year in England and had say that the printing machines of the Sydney
three of his English landscapes engraved by Henry Bulletin were my real master," he once confessed
Graves, and before returning to Australia had the to " M. A. P. " in relating the days of his youth,
satisfaction of learning that one of his works had " They were utterly unsuitable for the printing of
been hung at the Salon. work in which the value of light and shade was
The new purchases made by Mr. Mann for the pre-eminent, and so I was driven to the resort of
gallery include : a bronze reproduction of Rodin's expressing what I had to express in the fewest
well-known work The Kiss ; a bronze group, possible lines, but that was only the first year, after
Femina Viclrix, by W. Reid Dick, which was that the printing was beyond reproach." May was
shown at the last Academy ; the painting, Fiquet, a prominent figure in Sydney during the flourishing
by Campbell Taylor; a portrait of H. B. Irving, by period between 1887 and 1897, when not only
R. G. Eves; a portrait of Lady Ulrica Buncombe, leading Australian painters but such interesting
by J. J. Shannon, R.A.,
and original drawings by-
Phil May. The painting
of The Australian Fleet
entering Sydney Harbour,
October 4, ipfj, by Arthur
J. W. Burgess, was a com-
mission from the Trustees.
The Kiss, which is well
known through reproduc-
tions, is the fourth work
by Rodin which has been
bought for Australia. The
other three are : The Little
Lion, a bronze statuette, a
bronze head of Jean Paul
Laurens (replica of the
original in the Musee du
Luxembourg, Paris) and
the marble Minerve sans
casque (a replica), all of
which were purchased by
the Trustees of the Felton
Bequest for the Melbourne
Gallery. Mr. Eves's por-
trait should have a per-
sonal, as well as an artistic,
interest, as Mr. Irving re-
cently toured through
Australia and was invited
to lecture on Hamlet at
the universities at Sydney
and Melbourne.
Hitherto Phil May has portrait of h. b. irving, esq. hy r. n. eves, r.b.a.
134