H R Gallop | The Lakeside Camp Tuggerah Lakes
H R Gallop | Lakeside Camp, Tuggerah Lakes
Oil on canvas on board
38 x 45 cm
Signed lower right
Inscribed in pencil in the artists hand verso: ‘The Lakeside Camp, Tuggerah Lakes, 18 Gns, Herbert R Gallop Meadowbank NSW
$2800
Herbert Reginald Gallop (Bert) (1890—1958)
Landscape painter based in Sydney NSW.
Born in Gunning, NSW on 20 July 1890, Gallop was apprenticed to a signwriter and display artist. He studied at Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton and later became a leading member of the Australian Painters and Etchers Society.
He was an art teacher at the East Sydney Technical College, and in his spare time spent a great deal of time walking in the bush.
He exhibited at the Royal Art Society of NSW.