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C1880
New Zealand Lake Scene.
Artist:
Harold Brees (1841 - 1904)
Colonial New Zealand watercolour by Harold Brees. Harold Brees died at his home, 7 Ormond Street, Paddington, on 28 April 1904, aged sixty-six. References: McCulloch, Encyclopaedia of Australian Art p 281 Kerr, Joan. Dictionary of Australian Artists, Painters, Sketchers, ……..to … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
New Zealand Lake Scene.
Date:
C1880
Artist:
Harold Brees (1841 - 1904)
Condition:
Minor spotting to sky otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Original watercolor signed lower right.
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1880
Description:
Colonial New Zealand watercolour by Harold Brees.
Harold Brees died at his home, 7 Ormond Street, Paddington,
on 28 April 1904, aged sixty-six.
References: McCulloch, Encyclopaedia of Australian Art p 281
Kerr, Joan. Dictionary of Australian Artists, Painters,
Sketchers, ……..to 1870. P. 92
Campbell, Jean. Australian Watercolour Painters: 1780 to the
Present Day. P. 290
Artist:
Painter, cartoonist, lithographer, architect and surveyor,
born in London, son of the artist and architect Samuel Charles Brees.
After living in New Zealand and revisiting London, Brees
came to Sydney in 1858. There, according to the architect J.J. Davey, he was
employed for a time in the NSW Public Works and Lands Departments as an
architectural draughtsman, simultaneously managing ‘a little private work as
they all did’ – and a considerable amount of watercolour painting. As well as
designing and supervising the erection of buildings such as St Andrew’s Lodge
of Freemasons in Clarence Street (1874), Brees did the sort of commercial work
that helped keep artists alive in Sydney.
In 1880 a pamphlet promoting ‘the beauties and attractions
of Newport, Pittwater and the celebrated Hawkesbury lakes’ was published as a
real estate promotional venture with nine lithographs by S.T. Leigh & Co.
after watercolours by Brees. The ‘plan and local sketch of the new marine
township of Newport’ appended was presumably also his work.
