Arthur Collingridge | Young Australians 1891
Arthur Collingridge (1853-1907)
Young Australians 1891
Oil on Canvas
100 x 75 cm
Signed and dated lower right
Exhibited at Art Society of NSW 1891
Catalogue 195 as Young Australians
Sale price: 52 Pounds 10 Shillings
Related work:
Art Gallery Of NSW - A Token of Friendship 1890 (The same girl appears feeding the cow)
Born: 1853
Died: 1907
After arriving in Sydney in 1877, Arthur Collingridge became a staff artist for the Illustrated Sydney News and a contributor to the Town and Country Journal and the Sydney Mail. George Collingridge also worked for these papers and in 1881 the Illustrated Sydney News published the first picture of the Jenolan Caves, an engraving by George Collingridge based on a drawing by Arthur.
In 1880 the brothers played a key role in the formation of the Art Society of New South Wales. Both were regular exhibitors and sometimes prize winners at the Society's exhibitions. In 1888 the brothers produced three issues of a journal called Australian Art.
Arthur Collingridge also worked closely with the artist Charles Henry Hunt, sharing a studio with him in Hunter Street. They collaborated in establishing the Centennial Magazine.
Arthur was an art teacher at various technical colleges as well as having many private pupils. He was a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His work is represented in that gallery and in other collections. One of his best known works, an oil painting entitled "Departure of the troops for the Soudan", is in the collection of the Australian War Memorial. The Ervin Gallery holds an 1890 oil painting entitled "Man O'War Steps, Bennelong Point".
Arthur died on April 28 1907 at his home in Ryde and was buried in the Field of Mars cemetery. One Sydney newspaper observed that his death removed from the cultural life of Sydney "a man universally beloved and of striking personality".
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