Antique Oil Painting Young Girl Thomas Turner Australia 19th Century Vintage
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Antique Oil Painting Young Girl Thomas Turner Australia 19th Century Vintage:
$299.99
This painting has two small tears which are pictured. There is also some paint loss reflecting its old age. Otherwise this painting remains in Good condition considering its age and it could certainly be restored. I will leave that up to the buyer. The frame is the original and does have many chips of paint off the gold tone. Otherwise, the frame remains in good condition as well. This is a very unique piece and a beautiful portrait. Please see all the pictures as they are the best description of this item.
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Description Antique Oil Painting Young Girl Thomas Turner (1813-1995) Australian Artist Vintage
This is an amazing Antique oil portrait on Canvas Of a young girl with short brown hair and blue eyes. She wears a solemn expression on her face and her blue eyes stare into the distance. A lace collar adorns her neck accenting the pretty red dress that she is wearing. This gorgeous piece has a label on verso that is partially torn but the upper word \"Manchester and Fine Art\" can be made out. The lower words \"Thomas Turner appear\" as well at the bottom of the label. Thomas Turner was born in London in 1813 and was an architect, Artist and Painter. Turner migrated to the Swan River Colony in Western Australia in 1829 at a young age with his family. It is in Australia where he practiced as an architect, surveyor and artist. For more information about this artist, I have included his biography below in the listing. Although, this painting is unsigned, I believe it to be done by the Australian artist Thomas Turner due to the fact that his name is printed on the label on the verso of the wooden painting frame.
The piece was painted during the 1800\'s and is very old. I am uncertain as to the exact date that it was done but most likely during the mid 1800\'s.
The painting is medium-sized and measures 26 1/2\" by 22 1/2\" including the frame. The painting showing inside the frame measures 21 1/2\" by 17 1/4\".
Condition: This painting has two small tears which are pictured. There is also some paint loss reflecting its old age. Otherwise this painting remains in Good condition considering its age and it could certainly be restored. I will leave that up to the buyer. The frame is the original and does have many chips of paint off the gold tone. Otherwise, the frame remains in good condition as well. This is a very unique piece and a beautiful portrait. Please see all the pictures as they are the best description of this item.
Provenance: This painting comes from a large estate in New York that featured a collection of paintings from many well-listed artists.
About the artist:
Thomas Turner b. 31 July 1813
- Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
- Artist (Draughtsman),
- Artist (Painter)
On arrival at the Swan River on 12 March 1830, the Turners and the other would-be settlers found that no suitable land was available in the district and on government advice they pioneered a settlement at Flinders Bay some 200 miles to the south. This settlement, which became Augusta, was depicted by Thomas Turner in watercolour paintings and maps dating from 1830 to 1845: simple, competent records of the development of this small, isolated and struggling place. His views include Augusta. Hardy’s Inlet; First Settlement May 1830 (Art Gallery of Western Australia [AGWA]) and several views looking across Seine Bay to the homes of the early settlers, including the Turners’ Albion House (1836, c. 1837, 1838, 1840s, AGWA) and the homes of the Bussell and Molloy families (1833, p.c. England). He also drew landscapes in the district, e.g. Limestone Cliff, Turnerian Stream, Sussex, West Australia, 1835 (AGWA).
Within a few years the Turners’ fellow landholders abandoned the area, as did most of the indentured labourers. Despite years of determined work by the family, the lack of trading opportunities finally defeated the Turners too. Thomas and his two brothers settled at Turnwood in 1832, 4½ miles by water from the parental homestead at Augusta, where they built a cottage and farm buildings and cleared and farmed the land. This was abandoned four years later after local Aborigines burnt the place down. Late in 1838 Thomas, George and John Turner settled at The Spring, within 2 miles of their father’s property, but again this proved not commercially viable. In 1840 Thomas set off with his brothers to farm at the Vasse, having earlier surveyed and mapped the Sussex district between the two places with his brothers. His Vasse sketches include views of the major home in the district, the Bussells’ Cattle Chosen (1835, 1836, AGWA).
At Dunsborough, near Busselton, Turner married Elizabeth Heppingstone on 27 April 1846. They lived in several parts of Western Australia from April 1840 to July 1852, then moved to Perth. In November he and Elizabeth, their three children and Thomas’s sister Sarah left in the Chusan for the Victorian goldfields, hastily selling their property for substantially less than its market value. After sixteen months living in a tent at Campbell’s Creek, Castlemaine, they settled on a farm at Taradale (Vic.). In August 1854 Sarah wrote to her sister that Thomas was thinking of building a cheap wattle-and-daub house with rammed earth walls, despite a prejudice against this material by settlers used to brick or stone: \'I tell Thos. he must show them what a respectable comfortable house may be made of it, you may depend on Thos. doing the cheapest and best he can and in course of time bricks etc. will come down in price’.
The family moved into the Taradale townsship in 1859 and \'Thos.’ set up formally as an architect, surveyor and mapmaker. Among his commissions was the design and supervision of the Early English Gothic Revival church of Holy Trinity at Taradale, completed 1859. In 1869 Turner exhibited, for sale, a watercolour design for a church at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute. By then he had been working from 24 Doveton Street at Ballarat for some months, having transferred his building and architectural practice there in 1868 though he continued to visit Taradale until 1872. Turner’s ink and wash drawing of nearby Elphinstone and Mt. Alexander is dated 1868. Two undated watercolours, a view of a bridge and View of Taradale from the Westward , are thought to have been done about the same time. A wash drawing, Taradale , is dated 1868 on the back. All are in the Mitchell Library.
The family next moved to Melbourne and Turner was employed as a draughtsman by the Crown Lands Office from 1874. After several moves around Victoria he and his wife settled with their younger son, Edwin, at Bargo, New South Wales in 1880, moving to Sydney three years later. In 1885 Thomas selected 2500 acres at Digby Grange, near Gunnedah, then sold out to Edwin and took up a selection at Brandon in the Forbes district. Thomas died on 3rd July 1895 -the notice of his death appeared in \'The Argus’ Thursday 4 July 1895:
Deaths. Turner – On the 3rd inst., at 8 Phillipson-street, Albert-park, Thomas Turner the dearly beloved husband of Elizabeth Turner, father of Mrs. Thomas Gardner, Carlton; E. W. Turner, Gunnedah, N.S.W.; Tom H. Turner, Horsham; Geo. R. Turner, Bunbury, W.A.; and J. R. Turner, Tamworth, N.S.W., aged 82 years.
Turner’s artistic training came more from his father than from drawing lessons at boarding-school (of which sketchbooks survive). As Chapman notes, many of his drawings of houses bear a marked similarity to the architectural drawings which fill his father’s London sketchbooks (British Library). In turn, Thomas’s surveying skills, also acquired from his father, were duly passed on to Edwin whom he took on surveying expeditions. In 1860, while resident at Taradale, Thomas Turner was appointed a mining surveyor, receiving his surveyor’s certificate the following year.
Thomas Turner’s first colonial building job was to help erect the prefabricated house which James Turner had brought out from England. In later life he compiled a picture diary which included this house, and the twenty-nine other residences in which he had lived, from sketches made earlier on the spot. Several of the houses were built and presumably designed by Turner. His drawings show a sharp eye for domestic detail and include humble buildings and people going about their everyday life. Well able to convey the mood of a place, his Augusta drawings are most evocative of its isolation and poverty. Other sketches were the product of expeditions into the countryside, either on surveys or for his own enjoyment.
SOURCE: Design & Art Australia Online
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Antique Oil Painting Young Girl Thomas Turner Australia 19th Century Vintage:
$299.99