(I) THE LODGE, A. JEFFRIES [SIC] ESQ. CANTERBURY HOUSE, c.1860; (II) CANTERBURY HOUSE: THE DRIVE, c.1860; (III) CANTERBURY HOUSE, THE SEAT OF MR ARTHUR JEFFRIES [SIC]: GARDEN VISTA, c.1860; (IV) ST PAUL'S CANTERBURY, c.1860
CONRAD MARTENS
watercolour and gouache on paper
(I) 17.5 cm x 27.0 cm
signed lower left: C Martens
bears artist's name, title and date on labels verso
(II) 19.5 x 28.5 cm
signed lower right: C Martens
bears artist's name, title and date on labels verso
(III) 18.5 x 27.5 cm
bears artist's name, title and date on labels verso
(VI) 17.0 x 27.0 cm
signed lower right: C Martens
bears artist's name, title and date on labels verso
Major Frederick Fanning
Thence by descent to the godmother of the following owner's mother and thence by descent
Christie's, Melbourne, 10-11 April 2006, lot 11
Private collection, Queensland
Converting the Wilderness: The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia, Australian Tour, October 1979 - June 1980, cat. 56, 57, 58 and 59
Converting the Wilderness: The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia, The Australian Gallery Director's Council, Sydney, 1979, p. 69, pl. 56, 57, 58, 59 (illus.)
The following excerpt relating to Conrad Martens' View of the House at Canterbury 1860 is quoted from Ellis, E., Conrad Martens: Life and Art, State Library of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1994, pp. 180-181
The Canterbury estate, South Ashfield, was acquired by Robert Campbell of Wharf House in 1803 from William Cox. Arthur Jeffreys (1811-1861) married Sarah, a daughter of Robert and Sophia Campbell. Canterbury House... was built c.1850 by Edmund Blacket for Jeffreys. It was demolished in 1928 by its then owners, the Presbyterian Church, for residential subdivision.