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John Dougherty
(1895)
Medium
oil on canvas on composition board
Measurements
46.2 × 36.9 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
Gallery location
Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
David Davies studied at the National Gallery School from 1887 to 1890. In 1890 he travelled to Europe, studying in Paris and painting at St Ives, Cornwall, a popular artists’ colony. Returning to Melbourne in 1893, Davies settled at Templestowe and during the following four years completed numerous soft twilight landscapes. This portrait is a rare figurative subject in Davies’s work of the period. His distinct technique of thick paint, applied in broad, irregular strokes, evocatively captures the rough features of a local figure while simultaneously offering a glimpse of the bush landscape in the background.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Templestowe, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.l.: DAVIES
Accession Number
2004.162
Department
Australian Painting
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