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C1889
William Dampier.
Artist:
C.19th engraved portrait of William Dampier (1651-1715) was an English explorer, pirate, and navigator who became the first Englishman to explore parts of the west coast of Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
William Dampier.
Date:
C1889
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
160mm
x 210mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1889
Description:
C.19th engraved portrait of William Dampier (1651-1715) was an English explorer, pirate, and navigator who became the first Englishman to explore parts of the west coast of Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia’s first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Sir Walter Raleigh and James Cook.[
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.
