Edward MIDDLEDITCH
Summer landscape (1955)
oil on canvas
234.5 x 192.8 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1956
3363-4
© The Estate of Edward Middleditch, courtesy of James Hyman Gallery, London Arthur HUGHES
Fair Rosamund (1854)
oil on cardboard
40.3 x 30.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Miss Eva Gilchrist in memory of her uncle P. A. Daniel, 1956
3334-4
 Augustus JOHN
White primula (1931)
oil on canvas
89.2 x 63.8 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1937
407-4
© the Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images William Quiller ORCHARDSON
The first cloud 1887
oil on canvas
134.8 x 193.7 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1887
p.312.1-1
 Michael ANDREWS
A girl on the balcony (c. 1957)
oil on composition board
138.8 x 121.4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1959
99-5
© The Estate of Michael Andrews, courtesy James Hyman Gallery, London

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Screen form robert adams A girl on the balcony michael andrews All night long michael andrews Still life, beetroots leonard appelbee People in a wind kenneth armitage Portrait of a lady mary beale Portrait of the artist’s son, Bartholomew Beale mary beale Three self-portraits john bratby The monopolist robert buss Helen and Jane philip connard Small man in a landscape william crozier Southwold, Suffolk edwin edwards Marcus Curtius benjamin robert haydon The bell buoy charles napier hemy Queen Victoria hubert herkomer Andalusian farm tristram hillier Home again! frank holl Widowed frank holl Fair Rosamund arthur hughes Yellow fields henry inlander Collioure james dickson innes Man reading a newspaper roland jarvis Portrait of a boy (Robin) augustus john Rt. Hon. Harold Chaloner Dowdall, Lord Mayor of Liverpool and his sword-bearer augustus john The artist’s daughter augustus john White primula augustus john The nun gwen john A Salvation Army shelter e. borough johnson Marshlands cecil lawson Musical moments charles h. mackie Summer landscape edward middleditch Outside the harbour henry moore Virginian partridges cedric morris 1938 ben nicholson The first cloud william quiller orchardson Still life s. j. peploe Oedipus glyn warren philpot Spring alan reynolds Aliens at prayer william rothenstein Charles Conder william rothenstein Portrait of my parents (Porträt meiner Eltern) william rothenstein Two chairs on fire jack smith African panthers john macallan swan New risen hope annie l. swynnerton The lady in white annie l. swynnerton The house of Derain at Chambourcy (La Maison de Derain, Chambourcy) james taylor The Levant Mine john tunnard