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Title
Flowers and fruit
1849
Artist
William Buelow Gould
England, Australia
08 Nov 1803 - 11 Dec 1853
About
In a period when still-life painting was rare in Australia, William Buelow Gould produced a significant body of flower subjects and related nature studies. Gould's conventionalised but highly proficient style confirms a background in applied arts. Though Gould did not undertake formal art training, he executed his oil paintings with a keenly accurate eye, delicacy and refinement.
Transported to Tasmania for theft in 1827, Gould worked variously in the new colony as a coach painter, scene painter and natural history illustrator, recording plants and fish for scientific purposes. His principal activity was in Launceston and Hobart, where he died an emancipated citizen in 1853.
Details
Other Title
Flower piece
Date
1849
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.8 x 76.8 cm
Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l., oil "W. B. Gould Painter 1849".
Credit
Purchased 1956
Accession number
9196
Referenced in 6 publications
Bibliography
Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 68 (colour illus.).
Kate Hart, Australian art pack: 1788-21st century still life, Box Hill, (2006), (colour illus.). card 1
Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Painting and Sculpture', pg. 102-181, Sydney, 1999, 105 (colour illus.).
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1956 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1956, 7. cat.no.7; titled 'Flower piece'
100 masterpieces of Australian painting, Adelaide, 1973, 16, 17 (colour illus.). plate no. 5
Author Unknown, The Australian Artists Series Visitors Book, 1994.