Walter Follen Bishop | Adelaide From Mitcham 1918
Adelaide From Mitcham 1918
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 76 cm
Signed and dated lower right (SKETCH)
An important view of Adelaide from Mitcham. Painted in 1918, it seems possible that a larger work was planned but never completed. The Art Gallery Of South Australia has the smaller watercolour of the subject.
$8,500
Walter Follen Bishop (1856-1936)
Landscape painter, Bishop was born in Liverpool U.K.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy, London from 1882 and at the Royal Society of British Artists.
Arriving in Australia c.1900 for health reasons with his wife Florence Fitzgerald, the pair lived and worked in South Australia & Queensland.
He is represented in the collection of Art Gallery of South Australia.
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