Robert Ferry Thwaites, a colonial landscape artist, Robert La Nauze

Article from Vol 39 no 3, Aug 2017

Robert Ferry Thwaites, a colonial landscape artist, Robert La Nauze

Abstract:

For a brief period in the late 1880s, Robert Ferry Thwaites (1833–1917) exhibited and sold paintings in Melbourne alongside such artists as Frederick McCubbin, Eugene von Guérard, Tom Roberts and Minnie Boyd. Thwaites had led an adventurous life before taking up painting in his fifties, but since his death has faded from view.

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