Ernest D Stocks (1840-1921) Colonial topographical watercolour – Sydney Harbour from Quarantine Head, dated 1885

$1,650.00 AUD

Ernest D Stocks (1840-1921) watercolour:

View of Sydney Harbour, from Quarantine Head looking east towards Middle Head,

signed & dated lower right, ‘Ernest D Stocks / 1885’

 

In a quality modern gilt frame.

Frame 50x60cm, work aprox. 21x36cm

 

Ernest Decimus Stocks (1840-1921) was born in Manchester, coming to Melbourne in 1854 as a young teen, with his family. Heading to Ballarat to find gold, they were unsuccessful- but stayed, and Ernest became a teacher in the 1860’s. He probably also started painting, but it wasn’t until a career change in the 1870’s that he became dedicated to being an artist. He travelled widely, painting panoramas of towns, individual public buildings, and personal views of people’s houses.
He travelled widely, including New Zealand, and Sydney appears in many versions – an Art Union Prize of his in Ballarat in 1878 had ‘View of Sydney’ as the first-prize.

His works feature in numerous public collections in Australia.

In 2005, Geelong Art Gallery held his first retrospective exhibition. #31 in the catalogue is a watercolour, of the exact same dimensions as our example, titled ‘South Head from Manly’ – sourced from the State Library NSW, Mitchell Library Collection, dated as ‘1880’s’. The example in Moorabool’s stock is Sydney Harbour from a short distance away, from Quarantine Head looking East towards Middle Head.  It is logic these are two views produced on the same Sydney trip, and as ours is dated 1885, the view in the Mitchell Library is most likely also this date.

Our local Geelong Art Gallery’s Stocks exhibition:

https://www.geelonggallery.org.au/whats-on/exhibitions/ernest-decimus-stocks

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