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- Portrait of Dorothy Thornhill
The artist's wife - Date
- 1954
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 198.0 x 111.5; 209.5 x 123.2 x 4.7 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed verso on stretcher, pen and black ink on paper "DOUGLAS DUNDA(illeg.)/ .../ .../ ...".
- Credit
- Bequest of the artist 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 133.1988
- Copyright
- © Estate of Douglas Dundas
- Artist information
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About
This is one of several portraits Douglas Dundas painted of his second wife, the artist Dorothy Thornhill, another of which, 'Dorothy No.1', is in the Art Gallery's collection.
Dundas and Thornhill met at the National Art School in Sydney where she, like Dundas, would become a respected teacher over many decades.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Samuel Carter Hall (Editor), The Art Journal, London, 1879, 52.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Magazine of Art, London, 1881, 409.
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Art Journal, London, 1890, 257.
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Sydney International Exhibition: Official catalogue of exhibits, Sydney, 1879, 452.
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