Watercolours
Select another artist Bishop, Walter Follen Brees, Harold Campbell, John Conder, Charles Corsini, Raphael Dickerson, Robert Henry Drysdale, Sir Russell Garrett, Tom Heysen, Sir Hans Hilder, Jesse Jewhurst Lacey, George Lengo, Fran Long, Sydney Mahony, Frank P Minns, Benjamin Edwin Olsen, John Prout, John Skinner Rix-Nicholas, Hilda Sainthill, Loudon Tibbitts, William
George Lacy (c1827 – 1878) Arrived Sydney, July 1842 and travelled extensively throughout the colony at the newly discovered goldfields of Ophir, Tambaroora and Sofala. About 1855 to the Victorian goldfields probably supporting himself through painting excuting animal and sporting scenes.
These drawings are likely to be the works that are described in Joan Kerr’s Dictionary of Australian Artists up to 1875. An engraving was published in the Illustrated Sydney News in 1866.
c 1860
Watercolour and ink
41 cm x 31.5 cm
$14,500 (pair)