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Children playing in field

Stock AA1635

‘Children playing in field’

Australian School

Oil on canvas

20th Century

91.5 cm x 182 cm

Valerie O’Neill – Melbourne in Winter – 1980s

Stock AA1218

‘Melbourne in Winter’

Oil on Canvas

1980s

Valerie Marie Therese O’Neill

14/9/1929 – 8/8/2010

Valerie was born on the 14 September 1929. She grew up in Wright Street, Middle Park, and attended the Brigidine Convent, Kilbride, on Beaconsfield Parade.

As a young women she demonstrated prodigious artistic talent and studied under Archie and Amalie Colquhoun, contemporaries of Max Meldrum and later, at the National Gallery School under Sir William Dargie, eight times winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture.

“Slave Market” by Jay D.

Stock CBC0199

A 20th Century Australian oil on canvas depicting an unusual slave market with naked white slaves.  Painted by a student from the Norman Lindsay School.

“Slave Market”

Signed by Jay D.

After Napier Waller? Norman Lindsay?

C.1930

Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse *36

Pages of ‘Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse’.

No. 36 – Perdrix, male et female, de la Californie – California Male and Female Partridge Birds.

La Perouse set sail from France in 1785 to continue discoveries of Captain Cook.

He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narratives, maps and views survived and were published in 1797.

73 cm x 54 cm