Search results for 'Andrew Morris'

Artur Loureiro, a navigator of the fine arts: from Porto to Melbourne

Born in Portugal and trained in Europe, Artur Loureiro (1853–1932) settled in Melbourne where he painted and taught art for a living between 1884 and 1904. Painting various subjects in a wide range of styles, he associated with all the leading Melbourne artists of the time – Streeton, Conder, McC...

A Gift for the Queen: Andrew Lenehan’s Casket

Zealous colonists wanted those ‘at home’ to know how economically successful the British colonies in Australia had become. When gold was found in 1851, the Governor of New South Wales sent specimens of the first gold, in boxes made using selected colonial timbers by Irish-born cabinetmaker Andrew...

William Knox D'Arcy: Art Collector and Patron

William Knox D’Arcy (1849–1917) is remembered today as an indefatigable adventurer, who through financial daring and
extraordinary good fortune, became the ‘founder’ of the modern oil industry in the Middle East. However, there is another
facet to his life, as the ex-Rockhampton solicitor who became a...

Through the looking glass – identifying W. H. Rocke & Co’s second Melbourne International Exhibition 1880 drawing-room cabinet

Objects and art shown at international exhibitions always attract a premium. Often, they really were ‘showpieces’, specially made to demonstrate the maker’s skills, ability and cutting-edge design. Three room suites of W. H. Rocke’s furniture displayed at the prestigious Melbourne International Exhibiti...

Book reviews

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Max Donnelly with Andrew Montana and Suzanne Veldink, Daniel Cottier: Designer, Decorator, Dealer.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University Press, New Haven CT 2021. Hard cover,
256 pp, 200 illustrations, Booktopia price $59 plus postage.
Philip...

W.J. Williams and his paintings

In 2018, Dr Andrew Montana restored William Joseph Williams (1851–1918) as the artist responsible for the late 19th-century painted decoration in South Australia at Ayers House, the Museum of Economic Botany, Rigby’s bookshop, Trew’s South Australian Club Hotel and probably Para Para.1 Now the artist’s ...

And to beautify his house": Lyon, Cottier & Co.'s ecclesiastical window glass and decoration during the 1870s'

Sydney stained glass artists Lyon Cottier & Co. carried out many commissions in public, private and religious buildings in their 50 years of activity from 1873 to 1924. Prominent architects chose their work for Sydney’s GPO, Government House and Parliament House. Religious services were an important and frequ...

Kingston’s vision: South Australia’s earliest and most enigmatic piece of colonial furniture

Three South Australian researchers explore the possible genesis and history of a massive red gum bookcase which came up at an Adelaide auction in 2017. Using a variety of evidence, sources and methods, they identify the bookcase as a very early piece of South Australian furniture and mount a case for who commis...

W. J. Williams: art decorator of Ayers House, North Terrace, Adelaide

At a heritage conference in Adelaide in 2015, Dr Donald Ellsmore attributed the superb interior decoration at Adelaide’s Ayers House and Gawler’s Para Para in South Australia to the Sydney decorating firm of Lyon, Cottier & Co. and their employee Charles Gow, purely on speculation. Till now, his opinion has...

Tribute: John Rothwell (Ginger) Morris

Peter Watts composed this tribute to John Morris, former director of the National Trust (NSW) and a former President of the Australiana Society. He outlines John’s substantial contribution to heritage conservation in NSW, where he and his allies took the fight up to bureaucrats and developers to preserve buil...

Treasurer's Report

Richard Batholomew Smith's Wunderkammer

R.B. Smith made his model of the Strasburg Clock to celebrate the centenary of British settlement. It was hailed as a “scientific triumph of Australian workmanship”. At first, Smith exhibited it privately “like a fat woman in a country fair”1 until it found a home in Sydney’s Technological Museum. The...

Backchat

The first update to my book Convict and Free: the Master Furniture-makers of NSW 1788–1851 will be available on CD in December, with at least two new chapters, on Thomas Mercer Booth and John McMahon. However, Australiana members may be interested to learn now that a reader from Ireland has provided me with d...

Australiana Society Annual Reports 2013

Our first event after the last AGM was the show-stopping evening at the Mitchell Library to view the Macquarie collector’s chest, the Dixson collector’s chest and the Wallis album with Elizabeth Ellis and Richard Neville. This was one of the very best events that I can remember, with the unique opportunity ...

Book review: Andrew Montana et al, ‘Australia Revealed'

Reports from the Annual General Meeting of the Australiana Society Inc.

The Native Police Corps

Reports from the Annual General Meeting of the Australiana Society

Gold! An extraordinary colonial image

Australiana Society Treasurer's Report & financial statements

Morris Castle Sydney cabinet maker: his addresses and neighbours

Australiana Society Treasurer's Report 2009

Reflections on glass part 3

Morris Castle, cabinet maker of London & Sydney

Conway Weston Hart

John Clarke Jr, Andrew Lenehan & James Templeton, 'Cabinet Makers of Castlereagh St, Sydney

The man in a blue jacket

At home with silk batik and painted furniture: Byram Mansell's decorative art in 1920s Sydney

A Cutmear conundrum

The passage of time

Bock's better half

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright: dilettante, or simply misunderstood?

‘Colony New Australia’ notes

Charles Henry Theodore Costantini: convict, surgeon, artist & ... forger

Maritime Memorials

The Adelaide Gold Pound

President's report

The Poetics of Play: Kathleen Rouse, her Dolls and Mrs Cockram

Notes on A Message To the Tasmanian Aborigines in 1829, popularly called ‘Governor Davey's Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816’

Andrew Lenehan, Sydney Cabinetmaker

Book review: Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson and Andrew Simpson, ’Nineteenth Australian Furniture’, David Ell Press 1985

Books: South Coast Steamers, by Graeme Andrews. Published by the author 1983’