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An easterly breeze
1887
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1887
- Gallery location
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
From 1872 onwards Peter Graham began to exhibit large pictures of storm-lashed northern cliffs and seabirds. Reviewing this painting in 1872, the Art Journal remarked upon how: ‘In “An Easterly Breeze” ... Mr Peter Graham is quite at his best; he has done well to leave Highland cattle, for a while at least, in favour of the “deep bosom of the ocean” and its “dark unfathomed caves!”’
Artwork Details
Purchased, 1887
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Level 2, NGV International
Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1889, no. 279; Second Interchange Exhibition, Adelaide, 1896, cat. p. 27 (repr.); lent State Centenary Celebrations, Perth 1928–30.