Oil Paintings
Select another artist Abbott, Harold Allcot, John Aurisch, Sally Beauvais, Walter John Boyd, Arthur Boyd, David Bryant, Charles Coburn, John Coffey, Alfred Craig, Sybil Eustace, Alfred Feint, Adrian Forrest, Haughton Geach, Portia Greenhill, Harold Hawkins, Weaver (Raokin) Hong, Fu Jackson, James R Johnson, Robert Knight, Ken Lamorna-Birch, S J Langker, Sir Erik Lawrence, Bruce Marriott - Burton, Harry McKay, Eric Milani (Naples), Italian School Muir Auld, James Nedela, Janis Perry, Adelaide School, English Shead, Garry Somerville, Stuart Soper, James Thomas Spowers, Ethel Starkey, Lawrence Steadman, Jason Storrier, Tim Thomassin-Renardt, Desire Townsend, Graeme Woodward - Smith, Sidney
John Allcot was born in Derbyshire, United Kingdom on the 13th November 1888. He arrived in Australia 1912 and died 13th July 1973.
He was a marine painter, studying in England at the Liverpool School of Arts. He was commissioned to paint H.M.S. Endeavour Entering Botany Bay, 29th April, 1770, and similar historical subjects. He became well known for his impressionistic watercolours of sailing ships and liners, often viewed entering Sydney Harbour.
He also painted occasional landscapes and still life.
Allcot is represented in state and regional galleries including Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and the Manly Art Gallery, Sydney.
E.E.H. Archibald, Dictionary of Sea Painters, Antique Collectors Club, Woodridge, Suffolk, 1980.
1921
Oil on board
30 cm x 47 cm
$5,500