Lot 132
Percy Frederick Seaton Spence(1868-1933)An Australian Bushman, 1900
2 December 2025, 19:30 AEDT
SydneyAU$8,000 - AU$12,000
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Alex Clark
Head of Sale, Senior Specialist
Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
Percy Frederick Seaton Spence (1868-1933)
An Australian Bushman, 1900
signed and dated indistinctly lower left
oil on canvas
81.0 x 138.0cm (31 7/8 x 54 5/16in).
signed and dated indistinctly lower left
oil on canvas
81.0 x 138.0cm (31 7/8 x 54 5/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
John Sands Art Gallery, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, acquired in 1905
Unknown auction, Sydney, 26 November 1946
Private collection, New South Wales
Lawsons, Sydney, 22 November 1983, lot 169
Private collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1900, cat. 48
Percy Spence, John Sands Art Gallery, April 1905, cat. 12
LITERATURE
'Australians in London', The Australasian, Melbourne, 12 May 1900, p. 43
The Australasian, Melbourne, 30 June 1900, p. 25 (illus.)
'Personal notes from London', The Brisbane Courier, Queensland, 22 June 1900, p. 6
The British Australasian and New Zealand Mail, Eighteenth Annual Volume, 1900, p. 1185
'Mr Percy Spence's Exhibition', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 12 April 1905, p. 9
'Mr Spence's Pictures', Evening News, Sydney, 12 April 1905, p. 6
'New South Wales', The Express and Telegraph, Adelaide, 4 May 1905, p. 3
'New South Wales', The Advertiser, Adelaide, 4 May 1905, p. 6
'Sydney Scraps', Table Talk, Melbourne, 11 May 1905, p. 20
National Art Gallery of New South Wales Illustrated Catalogue, published by the authority of the Trustees, Sydney, 1906, p. 106, cat. 34
'New Pictures', The Inverell Times, New South Wales, 25 April 1934, p. 4
The Bulletin, John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, Sydney, 19 April 1941, p. 32