PIONEER FARM, 1878

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
20 April 2011
85

H.L. VAN DEN HOUTEN

(1801 - 1879, Dutch/Australian)
PIONEER FARM, 1878

oil on canvas

30.5 x 46.0 cm

signed and dated lower centre: H. L. van den Houten / 1878

Estimate: 
$12,000 - 15,000
Sold for $19,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 19 - 20 April 2011, Melbourne
Provenance

Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne,
20 April 1998, lot 16
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Probably in the Eighth Exhibition of the Victorian Academy of Arts, Melbourne, 1878, as 'A Farm Near Yarra Flats' cat. 63, or 'A Farm Near Black Hill Kyneton', cat. 121

Literature

Reproduced in a limited edition portfolio, 'Four Colonial Paintings', by the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited, to mark the Centenary of CML in 1973