Title
Portrait of Hardy Wilson
1909
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1909
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.9 x 71.7 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Signed and dated c.l., tan paint "George Henry 1909".
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Lachlan Hardy Wilson the sitter's son 1944
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 7408
- Copyright
- Artist information
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George Henry
Works in the collection
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About
William Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) was a famous Australian architect, designer, artist and author.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Retrospective exhibition of the works of Hardy Wilson (1981), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, Jan 1981–Feb 1981
Scottish paintings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Nov 1981–06 Dec 1981
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Zeny Edwards, William Hardy Wilson: artist, architect, orientalist, visionary, Sydney, 2001, 166 (illus.), 175 (illus.), 216 (colour illus.), 217, 235. illustrations on pages 166 and 175 are a 1912 photograph by Henry King of the painting hanging in Hardy Wilson's Darlinghurst apartment
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 84 (illus.).
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 98. cat.no. 935
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Scottish paintings in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1981, (illus.). no catalogue numbers
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Provenance
Lachlan Hardy Wilson, Launceston/Tasmania/Australia, Gift of Dr Wilson, the sitter's son 1944
