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An image of On Bideford Sands by Frank Wright Bourdillon

Frank Wright Bourdillon

(England died post 1928)

Title
On Bideford Sands
Other titles:
Bideford Sands, an incident in Henry Kingsley's "Westward Ho!"
Year
1889
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

147.8 x 184.0cm stretcher; 175.5 x 210.8 x 7.0cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., brown paint "F BOURDILLON/1889".
Credit
Purchased 1890
Accession number
726
Location
Not on display
Provenance (1)

Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists (Australia, estab. 1887, closed 1937), Melbourne/Victoria/Australia, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists 1890.

Bibliography (7)

Peter Tomory (United Kingdom) (Author), Anne Kirker (New Zealand; Australia, b.1947) (Author), British painting 1800-1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 52. cat.no. 158

Caroline Fox (Author), Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn School, England, 1993, 67 (illus.).

Renée Free (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 17 (illus.).

National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), New South Wales Art Gallery Pictures, Sydney, 1931, (illus.). pl. 38

National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1906, Sydney, 1906, 12 (illus.).

Art Journal 1890, 1890, 65, 72.

Royal Academy of Arts (England, estab. 1768) (Author), Academy notes, 1889: with illustrations of the principal pictures at Burlington House, 1889, 66 (illus.). no. 745, illustration on page 66 is a sketch

Exhibition history (2)

Royal Academy of Arts, 1889, Royal Academy of Arts, 1889–1889.

Exhibition of British Art, 1890, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1890–1890.