JEWELLERY, ANTIQUE AND ART AUCTION Tuesday, 26 February 2019 - 10:00 AM start
Henrietta Bloxsome attributed (UK/Aust 1796-1876)
Lot Details
'Fort Macquarie and Sydney Cove', a view of the fort [built 1821, demolished 1901] at Bennelong Point [now the Opera House site], Dawe's Point Battery and skyline buildings, c.1840s, watercolour. 180 x 245mm. Living in Australia for roughly two decades in the mid-19th century, a number of Henrietta Bloxsome's works survive in national collections. They variously depict scenes of Sydney Harbour and her residence in Mosman. Watercolourist and sketcher, married Oswald Bloxsome senior on 7 June 1825 in St George’s, Hanover Square, London. With her husband and son Oswald (born 18 February 1826), she sailed for Sydney from Plymouth on 11 April 1838. Her watercolour, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales (c.1849, ML) is a view from her home, The Rangers, at Mosman. A pencil sketch of Dwellings, Sydney 1850 (labelled a copy) also exists, as well as copies of English and European views done before her marriage (NLA). A pencil sketch in the National Library attributed to Oswald Bloxsome may also be by her. She returned to England with her husband in October 1856. Bloxsome, Henrietta (2008). In Trove. Retrieved from https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-501443 This and the following six watercolours were bought from Tim McCormick, Rare Books, Paintings & Prints, Woollahra in the mid-1980s.
