John Campbell | View From Double Bay Beach Towards Point Piper 1895

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John Campbell 1855-1924
View from Double Bay Beach towards Point Piper 1895
Watercolour and Gouache on paper
Size: (Painted image 31.5 x49 cm
Sheet size: 39 x 56.7 cm
Signed and dated 1895 lower right
Whatmans watermark RHS
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Biography

A scenic artist, sign writer and decorator, John Campbell migrated to Australia from Scotland probably in the early 1880s, working in New South Wales and Queensland before moving to Western Australia around the turn of the 20th century.
His detailed house portraits and landscapes in oil and watercolour form a valuable record of late colonial buildings and cities, particularly Perth, and he is represented in the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Mitchell Library and the Caroline Simpson Library of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. He is included in two broad historical surveys of colonial Western Australian art and was the subject of a monographic exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2003.

Represented:
State library of NSW
Royal WA Historical Society
National Gallery of Australia
University of Western Australia
Homes a court collection
Historic Houses Trust Conservation Resource Centre- NSW
Art Gallery of Western Australia

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