Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre,
782 Kingsway, Gymea NSW Australia
28 September – 3 December 2017
European old masters including magnificent works by some of the leading Italian, French and Britishartists of the High Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Romantic periods are on loan from the Art Gallery of New South Wales to Hazelhurst Regional Gallery for the exhibition European Old Masters: 16th – 19th Century .
European old masters including magnificent works by some of the leading Italian, French and Britishartists of the High Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Romantic periods are on loan from the Art Gallery of New South Wales to Hazelhurst Regional Gallery for the exhibition European Old Masters: 16th – 19th Century .
- Jacopo Amigoni Bacchus and Ariadne c1740-42. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Gift of James Fairfax AC 1993. Photo: AGNSW, Diana Panuccio.
The extraordinary donation by James Fairfax AC during the 1990s significantly enriched the Gallery’s holdings of European old masters, particularly in the area of 18th - century French and Italian art such as the works by Nicolas de Largillierre and Canaletto. The collection has continued to develop with the acquisition of major Italian Renaissance and Baroque works such as the work of Giulio Cesare Procaccini, also exhibited in European Old masters: 16th - 19th Century .
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake
An antique rural scene
1823-1824
oil on canvas
67.3 x 90.3 cm canvas; 100.4 x 124.0 x 14.0 cm frame Bequest of Amy Alfreda Vickery 1942
William Hogarth
Dr Benjamin Hoadly M D
early 1740
oil on canvas
75.9 x 63.5 cm stretcher; 98.5 x 86.2 x 5.0 cm frame Purchased 1951
Joseph Wright of Derby
Margaret Oxenden
circa 1757-circa 1759
oil on canvas
126.3 x 102.0 cm stretcher; 151.7 x 127.0 x 7.5 cm frame Purchased 1952
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Stephen Croft
1760
oil on canvas
76.2 x 63.6 cm stretcher; 95.5 x 82.0 x 7.0 cm frame Purchased 1965
Bernardo Strozzi
The release of St Peter
circa 1635
oil on canvas
125.5 x 114.0 cm stretcher; 149.5 x 138.8 x 7.0 cm frame Purchased 1965
Thomas Gainsborough
Samuel Kilderbee
circa 1758
circa 1783 {partially repainted}
oil on canvas
76.3 x 63.7 cm stretcher; 94.5 x 82.5 x 9.5 cm frame Purchased 1966
Francis Danby
The three sisters of Phaethon weeping over the tomb of their brother 1841-1845
oil on canvas
63.5 x 91.6 cm stretcher; 76.0 x 104.0 x 7.5 cm frame
Purchased 1970
Sir Henry Raeburn
John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode
circa 1820
oil on canvas
128.6 x 102.7 cm canvas; 151.5 x 126.0 x 10.2 cm frame Purchased with the William and Mary Farnsworth gift fund 1971
Sir Joshua Reynolds
James Maitland, 7th Earl of Lauderdale
1759-1760
oil on canvas
239 x 148.5 cm stretcher; 263.5 x 172.0 x 9.0 cm frame
Purchased with an anonymous gift fund for an 18th century portrait 1976
Jean-Marc Nattier
Madame de La Porte
1754
oil on canvas
80.8 x 64.1 approx original canvas; 81.7 x 65.4 cm stretcher; 111.0 x 94.5 x 10.0 cm frame
Gift of William Bowmore OBE 1992
Nicolas de Largillierre
Portrait of an officer
circa 1714-circa 1715
oil on canvas
65.5 x 54.1 cm original canvas; 65.9 x 55.1 cm stretcher; 90.0 x 78.8 x 10.0 cm frame
Gift of James Fairfax AC 1995
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
The apotheosis of a pope and martyr
circa 1780-1785
oil on canvas
83.5 x 45.0 x 1.5 cm stretcher; 99.5 x 61.3 x 5.5 cm frame Gift of James Fairfax AC 1995
Canaletto
The Piazza San Marco, Venice 1742-1746 oil on canvas
6 7.5 x 119.0 cm stretcher; 85.0 x 136.0 x 9.0 cm frame Gift of James Fairfax AC 1996