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Collection

Stanhope Forbes

(England 18 Nov 1857–02 Mar 1947)

Title
Their ever-shifting home
Year
1887
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

179.2 x 115.6cm stretcher; 196.5 x 132.5 x 6.0cm frame

Signature & date
Signed l.r., black paint "Stanhope A Forbes". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1890
Accession number
893
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 (10)

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Victorian Social conscience 1976, Sydney, 1976. cat.no. 23

Leigh Astbury, City bushmen: the Heidelberg school and the rural mythology 1985, Melbourne, 1985, 146 (illus.). plate no. 196

Mrs Lionel Birch, Stanhope A Forbes and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, ARWS, London, 1906, 36.

Caroline Fox, Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn School, England, 1993, 27 (illus.).

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, 'European', pg. 36-56, Domain, 1988, 44.

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 64 (illus.).

Peter Tomory and Anne Kirker, British painting 1800-1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 83. cat.no. 683

Editor Unknown (Editor), The Art Journal Dec 1911, London, Dec 1911, (illus.).

Editor Unknown (Editor), The Art Journal 1892, London, 1892, 66, 69.

Author Unknown, Magazine of Art 1887, 1887, 309, 289.

Exhibition history (3)

Royal Academy of Arts, 1887, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1887–1887

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

Victorian Social Conscience, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Aug 1976–19 Sep 1976