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C1857
National Model & Training School, Melbourne.
Artist:
Samuel Thomas Gill (1818 - 1850)
Designed by the architect Francis Maloney White (1819-1888) The National Model & Training School was established on the northeast corner of Spring and Albert Streets, Melbourne in 1854. It became Victoria’s first secondary school in 1905, and moved to South … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
National Model & Training School, Melbourne.
Date:
C1857
Artist:
Samuel Thomas Gill (1818 - 1850)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
205mm
x 145mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1857
Description:
Designed by the architect Francis Maloney White (1819-1888) The National Model & Training School was established on the northeast corner of Spring and Albert Streets, Melbourne in 1854. It became Victoria’s first secondary school in 1905, and moved to South Yarra in 1927, renamed Melbourne Boy’s High School. The building was demolished in 1933 to make way for the College of Surgeons in 1935.
Biography:
Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-1880)
S.T.Gill as he is often now known, was born at Somerset, England, the son of Rev. Samuel Gill, Baptist minister, and educated at Plymouth in a school kept by his parents, and later at Dr Seabrook’s academy. His father taught him drawing and he was later employed in London as ‘Draftsman and Water Colour Painter’ by the Hubard Profile Gallery, an establishment which produced silhouettes.
He arrived in South Australia in 1839 and by March 1840 he had established a studio in Gawler Place, Adelaide, which was open from ‘eleven till dusk‘; he offered to produce portraits of human beings, horses and dogs, and to sketch houses and transfer the sketches ‘to paper suited for home conveyance‘. In 1846 he accompanied the expedition Horrocks which reached the head of Spencer Gulf.
In 1852 Gill travelled to the Victoria and in the next twenty years produced drawings, watercolours and lithographs of scenes of the Victorian and New South Wales gold fields. After 1870 Gill fell into obscurity and on 27 October 1880 he collapsed in Post Office Place, Melbourne, and was found to be dead when taken to hospital.
Gill’s legacy is a large body of work which portrayed life during the greatest gold boom the world had seen.
