Eugene von GUÉRARD<br/> <em>Mount William and part of the Grampians in West Victoria</em> 1865 (colourman)<br /> oil on cardboard<br /> 30.3 x 40.6 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Collier Bequest, 1955<br /> 1562-5<br /> <!--5680-->
Eugene von GUÉRARD
Mount William and part of the Grampians in West Victoria 1865 (colourman)
oil on cardboard
30.3 x 40.6 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Collier Bequest, 1955
1562-5
Conservation

Artists’ Colourmen

Companies manufacturing and supplying artist’s materials, from the late Eighteenth Century onward, are known as Artists’ Colourmen. They marked their products, canvases, stretchers, and boards, for instance, with individual and characteristic stamps, stencils, labels and embossed marks. These often carry the company name and address, which can be used to indicate the source and general date of manufacture of the canvas, board or stretcher associated with an artwork. We have compiled the occurrences of these stamps, stencils, labels and marks found on artworks in the National Gallery of Victoria as a resource for study and interest.

We have included in this compilation several cigar manufacturers, who are not artist’s colourmen but whose stencils appear on a group of works where cigar box lids have been recycled and used to paint on. These have a particular relationship with a group of works produced for an exhibition in Melbourne in 1889.

This on-line resource has been made possible by the generous support of the Telematics Course Development Fund.

We are also indebted to Jacob Simon for allowing us to reference the rich on-line archive of historical information on artist’s colourmen provided by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

AICKELIN

Sunrise, Venice
Arthur STREETON
Venetian boats
E. Phillips FOX

ARTISTIC STATIONERY COY

Rickett's Point
Charles CONDER
The spirit of the new moon
Arthur LOUREIRO
Summer sea
Frederick McCUBBIN
Slumbering sea, Mentone
Tom ROBERTS
Louise, daughter of the Hon. L. L. Smith
Tom ROBERTS
Professor Marshall-Hall
Arthur STREETON
Evening on the Yarra, Eaglemont
Walter WITHERS

BADGER

Diana Vernon
John Everett MILLAIS

BERTAUX

The Seine at St Pierre near Louviers: A morning in October
Alexandre NOZAL

BERVILLE

The bridge on the Seine at Chatou
Maurice de VLAMINCK

BEUGNIET

The port of Le Havre
Eugène BOUDIN

BLANCHET

Woman resting
Edmond-François AMAN-JEAN

BROWN

Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom
Edwin LANDSEER

CHAUVIN

Portrait of my cousin
E. Phillips FOX

CHENIL

Lulworth Cove
George BELL
Agapanthus
Mark GERTLER
A sergeant of the Light Horse
George W. LAMBERT
Mrs E. P. Reed
George W. LAMBERT
The black pansy
William NICHOLSON
The Chinese shawl
William ORPEN
John Tweed, sculptor
James QUINN

CLARO COLORADO (Cigar manufacturer)

Harper's Weekly
Tom ROBERTS

COLE

J. A. Panton, Esq., PM
Frederick McCUBBIN
An Australian girl
Frederick McCUBBIN

COLIN

Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK

CONTET

Boulevard Montmartre, morning, cloudy weather
Camille PISSARRO

CORDER

Monbulk
Ernest BUCKMASTER
The peacock bowl
Ernest BUCKMASTER
Railway yards, South Melbourne
Louis FOULET

DEFORGE-CARPENTIER

Psyche in the Underworld
Eugène-Ernest HILLEMACHER

DIMES & ELAM

DIOT

Country festival
Adolphe MONTICELLI

DUBUS

The plain of Gennevilliers, yellow fields
Gustave CAILLEBOTTE

EATWELL

Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
David Wilkie WYNFIELD

FERGUSSON & MITCHELL

The studio party
Bernard HALL

FOINET FILS & LEFEBVRE

Endormies
Rupert BUNNY
Madame Melba
Rupert BUNNY
Self portrait (full length in dressing gown)
Hugh RAMSAY
(Interior of artist's studio)
Hugh RAMSAY

FOINET FILS & LEFEBVRE / W&G DEAN

Consolation
Hugh RAMSAY

FREDRIX

An Australian house
William Delafield COOK

GRUMBACHER

Sam
Jenny WATSON

HARDY-ALAN

The guitar player
Pierre Auguste RENOIR
Eggs in a pan
Antoine VOLLON

KEMP

Greenwich Observatory
Peter PURVES SMITH

LA FAVORITA MANILA (Cigar manufacturer)

Across the Dandenongs
Tom ROBERTS
By the Treasury
Tom ROBERTS

LANHAM

LEFEBVRE FOINET

Eos and the shepherd
Rupert BUNNY
Spring scene
Rupert BUNNY
The stragglers
Rupert BUNNY
Portrait of a French officer
Rupert BUNNY
Self-portrait
Rupert BUNNY
A sunny nook
Rupert BUNNY
Side of chapel, St Paul
Rupert BUNNY
Nausicaa's serving maids
Rupert BUNNY
The letter
Agnes GOODSIR
Still life
Nicholas de STAËL
Old mill, Normandy
E. C. OFFICER
Thunderbird
Jean-Paul RIOPELLE

LEFRANC

The defenestration, 1618
Václav BROŽÍK

MARCELLA (Cigar manufacturer)

Cloud study
Tom ROBERTS

MEUNIER

Autumn leaves
John Singer SARGENT
Hospital at Granada
John Singer SARGENT

MULLER

A horse
ENGLAND

NEWMAN

Mount Gambier, South Australia
S. T. GILL
Black Hill Moss
Charles HOLMES
The friends
Gwen JOHN
A Salvation Army shelter
E. Borough JOHNSON
Ada Garrick (Mrs Bright)
John LONGSTAFF
Landscape of the summer solstice
Paul NASH
Gentleman in riding costume
William ORPEN
(Lady with umbrella)
J. W. POWER
The Falls, Richmond, Yorkshire
Philip Wilson STEER
Southampton water
Philip Wilson STEER
The Japanese gown
Philip Wilson STEER
African panthers
John Macallan SWAN
The right of way
Frederick WALKER

OTTOZ

Seascape, sunset
Jules DUPRE

PAUL FOINET

Mermaids dancing
Rupert BUNNY
Sea idyll
Rupert BUNNY
Portrait of the artist's wife
Rupert BUNNY
Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria
Rupert BUNNY
Rupert Bunny
Alastair CARY-ELWES

PAUL FOINET FILS

Hercules in the garden of Hesperides
Rupert BUNNY
Chattering
Rupert BUNNY
Shrimp fishers at Saint-Georges
Rupert BUNNY
Farm in Provence
Rupert BUNNY
Courtesans in the countryside
Rupert BUNNY

PELLETIER

Processional
Bernard HALL
Under a summer sun
Tom HUMPHREY

PENFOLD

Girl in a purple dress
Roland WAKELIN

REED & CO

Tea Trees near Cape Schanck, Victoria
Eugene von GUÉRARD

REEVES & SONS

Meditation
Aby ALTSON
Mount William and part of the Grampians in West Victoria
Eugene von GUÉRARD
Horses and pigs
John Frederick HERRING junior
The artists' camp
Tom ROBERTS
The river
Arthur STREETON
Arkwright's Valley, Derbyshire
Arthur STREETON

REEVES & SONS / WHITELAW

Flower piece
George BELL

RENOUX

Study from the nude
Isaac COHEN

REY & PERROT

Field of beetroots
John RUSSELL
Peonies and head of a woman
John RUSSELL

ROBERSON

England
Richard ANSDELL; Thomas CRESWICK
Oxford Street building site II
Frank AUERBACH
The charcoal burners
Richard BEAVIS
An emigrant's thoughts of home
Marshall CLAXTON
The crisis
Frank DICKSEE
Widowed
Frank HOLL
Autumnal showers
Peter GRAHAM
A fern gatherer - West Highlands
Robert HERDMAN
Home again!
Frank HOLL
Fair Rosamund
Arthur HUGHES
Wheat
John LINNELL
The rescue
John Everett MILLAIS
Head of an old man
Victor PASMORE
Deer stealers pursued by sleuth hounds
Briton RIVIÉRE
Lake Como
Tom ROBERTS

ROBERSON & MILLER

Nobleman between Active and Contemplative life
Paolo VERONESE; Paolo VERONESE (studio of)

ROWNEY

The monopolist
Robert BUSS
Dr Maund
Nicholas CHEVALIER
(Irish coast)
Clara FOLINGSBY
Rachel
Frederick GOODALL
Melbourne from Prospect Hill
John MATHER
An interesting story
James TISSOT

SCHUTZMAN

Study of interior
G. F. FOLINGSBY
(Study of a cellar, old castle, Hohenaschau)
G. F. FOLINGSBY
(Study of the interior of a convent room)
G. F. FOLINGSBY

SMITH
Mrs Fairbairn (Nancy Cunard)
Alvaro GUEVARA
Horses bathing in the sea
Lucy KEMP-WELCH

SPORT (Cigar manufacturer)

Petit déjeuner - sketch for After breakfast
Frederick McCUBBIN

TEMPELAERE

The confession of the Giaour
Eugène DELACROIX

TEMPELAERE / HARDY-ALAN

The spring
Henri FANTIN-LATOUR

UNKNOWN (illegible)

Mima Lennie
Hugh RAMSAY

Unknown (W)

Portrait of a young girl
James QUINN

VIEILLE

A forest clearing
Narcisse DIAZ

VIEILLE, TROISGROS

Rough weather at Étretat
Claude MONET

W&G DEAN

(Mother and child)
E. Phillips FOX
The marble staircase, Public Library
Bernard HALL
The model and the globe
Bernard HALL
The studio shrine
Bernard HALL
The Rotunda, Melbourne Gallery
Bernard HALL
Asia
Bernard HALL
Friendly critics
Constance L. JENKINS
Hera
George W. LAMBERT
Jessica
John LONGSTAFF
Evening, Brighton Beach 1897
John MATHER
The Pool of London
Frederick McCUBBIN
The wattle glade (The boundary of Mr MacGregor's garden, Mount Macedon)
Frederick McCUBBIN
Landscape, South Yarra
Frederick McCUBBIN
Walter Hall
Frederick McCUBBIN
Moonrise
Frederick McCUBBIN
Camel's Hump
Frederick McCUBBIN
Eliza Hall
Frederick McCUBBIN
Eliza Hall (Mrs Walter Hall)
Frederick McCUBBIN
Tallarook on Sunday
Esther PATERSON
Fernshaw: A bush symphony
John Ford PATERSON
The village laundress
Leon POLE
Tom
Hugh RAMSAY
Hauling the logs
R. E. TAYLOR GHEE
Alfred Felton
J. C. WAITE
Yachts off Williamstown
Walter WITHERS

WEST

Nasturtiums
Arthur STREETON

WIKEY

Mount St Michael, Cornwall
Clarkson STANFIELD

WILLIAM BENHAM

A Sheikh and his son entering Cairo on their return from a pilgrimage to Mecca
Robert DOWLING

WINSOR & NEWTON

Study from the human body
Francis BACON
La Belle Yseult
John BEDFORD
Survey paddock
Louis BUVELOT
Sheep in landscape
J. H. CARSE
Sketch portrait of Miss Elmhurst Goode
George COATES
Koriniti, New Zealand
Alfred COFFEY
Mrs Campbell McInnes (later Angela Thirkell)
John COLLIER
Landscape with river and boat
Charles CONDER
Twilight at Ivanhoe
David DAVIES
Ercildoune, near Ballarat
David DAVIES
A Sheikh and his son entering Cairo on their return from a pilgrimage to Mecca
Robert DOWLING
Coblenz
Henry GRITTEN
View of Mr Clarke's estate at Sunbury with the railway viaduct and Jackson's Creek
Henry GRITTEN
View of Melbourne, Victoria, from the Botanic Gardens
Henry GRITTEN
The bell buoy
Charles Napier HEMY
The artist's wife
Henry LAMB
Inferno
Wyndham LEWIS
Morning sunlight
John LONGSTAFF
Falls Bridge, Melbourne
Frederick McCUBBIN
Still life of roses
Frederick McCUBBIN
Portrait of a man
Frederick McCUBBIN
Summer evening
Frederick McCUBBIN
Australian scene (Williamstown)
Frederick McCUBBIN
Collins Street
Frederick McCUBBIN
Bridge, Venice
Josephine MUNTZ ADAMS
Portrait of an Aborigine
Girolamo NERLI
Street scene on a rainy night
Girolamo NERLI
View of Melbourne
John Ford PATERSON
Ivanhoe
Leon POLE
Anemones
Septimus POWER
Anxiety
Hugh RAMSAY
Interior of the church of St Anne, Bruges
David ROBERTS
Sam Rabin versus Black Eagle
William ROBERTS
The morning after Trafalgar
Clarkson STANFIELD
Near Heidelberg
Arthur STREETON
Jealous
Samuel Edmund WALLER
'Summer has gone on swallows' wings'
Frank WALTON
Lake Wanaka, summer evening
W. M. N. WATKINS
Love and Death
G. F. WATTS
Gloucester
James WEBB
Lock on the Thames
James WEBB
Stony weir
Frederick WHITEHEAD

WINSOR & NEWTON / COLE

The pioneer
Frederick McCUBBIN
Edward Trenchard
Tom ROBERTS

WINSOR & NEWTON / HARRISON

Scabiosa
A. M. E. BALE

WINSOR & NEWTON / W&G DEAN

Roses
C. Asquith BAKER

WURM

The traitor
Paul JOANOWITCH

YOUNG

Lotty and a lady
George W. LAMBERT
Night (no. 2)
William ORPEN
George C. Beresford
William ORPEN