Pencil Sketch by Frederick Bennett- ‘Timber Walk Bridge Swiss Alps’ 1872
$85.00 AUD
Original Victorian pencil sketch depicting a wooden bridge structure over a waterfall in a mountainous landscape
Back marked ‘Frederick Bennett 1872 Timber Walk Bridge Swiss Alps’
signed to side ‘Mount Bou(?) 7th August 1872 F.B.B’
15cm x 24cm
Fredrick B Bennett is an undocumented artist, which is surprising as he shows his skills in this sketch book. There is a Fredrick Bennett in the Melbourne art world. W.B. Bennett came to Melbourne in the gold rush years as a book seller and his son Frederick continued the business selling early manuscripts to the national gallery of Victoria, however no art by him is recorded. Other sketches by FBB attributed to the same Fredrick Bennett are all done in England, Switzerland and Austria, 1872-3 suggesting an artist traveling through on a Grand tour, it’s tempting to think this is the same .
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