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C1886
Governor John Hunter.
Artist:
Captain John Hunter (1737– 1821) was the second governor of New South Wales from 1795 to 1800. William Macleod was born in London and arrived in Australia in 1855. Best known as the editor of the ‘Bulletin’ magazine, he also … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Governor John Hunter.
Date:
C1886
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
125mm
x 130mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1886
Description:
Captain John Hunter (1737– 1821) was the second governor of New South Wales from 1795 to 1800.
William Macleod was born in London and arrived in Australia in 1855. Best known as the editor of the ‘Bulletin’ magazine, he also contributed to ‘Punch’. He painted numerous portraits of historical figures and scenes. This engraving is from the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia which was the most ambitious publishing venture in Australian history up to the 1900’s. It was conceived and financed by American publishers under the name of the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co Limited, Sydney and Melbourne. It’s ambitious aims of using the best artists, the best paper, the finest printing engraving techniques and for it to be the most comprehensive survey of Australia’s colonial history ensured that it inevitably was doomed to be a financial failure. The legacy that it left on the other hand was some of the finest engravings and maps printed in Australia in the nineteenth century.
William Macleod (1850 - 1929)
Colonial artist born 1850 in London arrived in Australia with his family who emigrated to join the gold rush in Victoria. Macleod trained with the Sydney artist Edmund Thomas at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts and was known first, as William Macleod Anderson or James Anderson. He travelled widely and won a reputation as a painter of portraits and cattle, a designer of stained-glass windows, and as illustrator with journals such as the Sydney Mail, the Australian Town and Country Journal and Queensland Punch. Macleod joined the Bulletin full time in 1886 in response to a plea from Archibald following the departure of W.H.Traill. They became joint owners in 1887, Macleod was the Bulletin's managing director for the next forty years. Macleod worked in a variety of art forms from stained glass to black-and-white drawing, oils, watercolour, engraving, lithography, clay modelling and sculpture. His strength was as an illustrator. In later life Macleod lived at Dunvegan, Mosman, where he painted, played bowls with zeal, and was a genial and kindly host. His works are represented in a number of institutional collections such as, in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Australia.
