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Farm landscape with colonial homestead 1888

Accession No.
1:0116
Date Created
1888
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
38.5 x 101.2cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour over pencil on wove paper on cardboard
Credit Line
Purchased 1911

From an early age, Robert S Rayment showed a talent for painting, but, in deference to his parents’ wishes, he studied law. He was once a pupil of influential English art critic and watercolourist John Ruskin, but little is known of his artistic career before he migrated to Australia in 1887. As Rayment’s active career in Queensland lasted just six years, paintings such as this impressive landscape are extremely rare.

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Kenneth Macqueen / Australia NSW 1897 - 1960 / Harvesting scene (detail) c.1956 / Watercolour over pencil on wove paper / Purchased 1956 / Collection: QAGOMA / © QAGOMA / A watercolour landscape depicting rolling fields in shades of green and yellow, with hills in the background shadowed by clouds.

‘Watercolour in Queensland’

Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

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