[River bend with Figure.]

Beautifully impressionist style painting by Alphonse Duprez, a continental artist who visited Australia and New Zealand in 1910 with his brother Claude Duprez. The paintings they painted during their visit were all sold at auction by James R. Lawson in Sydney in 1910. In its original gilt frame.

Little biographical information is available but an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald on 30th May, 1910 has the following notice for an upcoming auction of the artist’s paintings. It reads;

Important Picture Sale. / To-morrow, Tuesday, 31st May (1910) at 2-30 O’clock, Afternoon. A Collection of seventy paintings by the Duprez Brothers, Alphonse Duprez, Claude Duprez, (Continental Artists).

The work of both Brothers Duprez has met with marked appreciation in England and on the Continent. Both artists have been represented at the Paris Salon, and at most of the important Galleries and Exhibitions abroad. During a visit to New Zealand and Australia, the artists painted many famed beauty spots. The Magnificent Collection Includes Beautiful Old English Homesteads, Harvesting Scenes, River and Loch, Scottish and Italian Scenes, in Addition to the Beauty Spots of New Zealand and Australia. Catalogues may be had free. per post, on application to the Auctioneers. The Whole of the Paintings will be on View at the Central and Commodious Rooms of James R. Lawson and Little, Fine, Art, Furniture, and General Auctioneers, 128-130 Pitt-Street, near King-Street.