‘Royal memories of Canberra’; repatriating the Duke of Gloucester’s 1946 collection Scenes of Canberra by John Eldershaw, Sam Nichols

Vol 43 no 4, November 2021
Article from Vol 43 no 4, November 2021

‘Royal memories of Canberra’; repatriating the Duke of Gloucester’s 1946 collection Scenes of Canberra by John Eldershaw, Sam Nichols

Abstract:

John Roy Eldershaw (1892–1973) was a landscape artist who worked primarily in watercolours. During his lifetime, he
was proclaimed to be ‘destined to leave unmistakable footprints in the sands of time’. In 1973 Sir Erik Langker, the arts administrator and influential member of
the Sydney arts establishment, believed Eldershaw posthumously ‘would be remembered as one of Australia’s most outstanding painters’.

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