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1884
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
105.0 × 181.9 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1887
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Keeley Halswelle began his career making drawings for the Illustrated London News and continued with book illustration. His early paintings depicted scenes of fishing life at Newhaven. In the late 1860s he made the first of many visits to Rome and exhibited Italian subjects for many years. During the 1880s he largely abandoned figure subjects and concentrated on Highland landscapes and views of the Thames, painted from a houseboat.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in maroon paint l.l.: Keeley Halswelle / 1884.
Accession Number
p.312.4-1
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Agriculture Animals Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
domestic sheep (species) grasses (plants) rivers shade (light-related concept) trees
Provenance
Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1885, no. 619; exhibited Grosvenor Gallery Intercolonial exhibition, Melbourne, 1887–88, no. 105; from where purchased, on the advice of G. F. Folingsby, for the NGV, 1887.
Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1885, no. 619; Grosvenor Gallery Intercolonial exhibition, Melbourne, 1887–88, no. 105; Victorian Gold Jubilee Exhibition 1851–1901, Bendigo, 1901, no. 108.
Frame
Original, by W. A. Smith, London
Frame
Though there is no label on this frame it is recognisable as a companion to the W. A. Smith frame on Halsewelle’s Heart of the Coolins, Isle of Skye 1886, which was purchased the year after this painting.
Variations of this frame can be found on Peter Graham’s An Easterly Breeze (p.312.2-1) , and After the Massacre of Glencoe (p.315.1-1) along with William Hatherell The baliffs daughter of Islington (4308-3)
Frame Details
Framemaker
W. A. Smith
20 & 22 Mortimer Street, Regent Street, London W.
Date
c.1884
Materials
timber, composition, gold leaf
Frame Condition
good original condition