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    • (ATTRIBUTED) JOSEPH BACKLER, (1813 - 1895), Portrait of a Matriarch, oil on canvas (AF), 89 x 73 cm. (35.0 x 28.7 in.), frame: 119 x 102 x 9 cm. (46.8 x 40.1 x 3.5 in.)
      Oct. 30, 2024

      (ATTRIBUTED) JOSEPH BACKLER, (1813 - 1895), Portrait of a Matriarch, oil on canvas (AF), 89 x 73 cm. (35.0 x 28.7 in.), frame: 119 x 102 x 9 cm. (46.8 x 40.1 x 3.5 in.)

      Est: $600 - $800

      (ATTRIBUTED) JOSEPH BACKLER (1813 - 1895) Portrait of a Matriarch oil on canvas (AF) unsigned

      Lawsons
    • ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BACKLER Mother and Child circa 1840
      Apr. 10, 2022

      ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BACKLER Mother and Child circa 1840

      Est: $8,000 - $12,000

      ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BACKLER Mother and Child circa 1840 oil on canvas 88.5 x 68.5 cm together with its original, fine gilt-wood frame PROVENANCE Dysart House, Kempton, Tasmania

      Gibson's
    • ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BACKLER, HORSES AND CATTLE WITH ABORIGINAL STATION HAND, WELLWOOD FARM, ORANGE, NSW, C.1840 – 1850
      Nov. 10, 2021

      ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BACKLER, HORSES AND CATTLE WITH ABORIGINAL STATION HAND, WELLWOOD FARM, ORANGE, NSW, C.1840 – 1850

      Est: $20,000 - $30,000

      ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BACKLER (1813 - 1895, British/Australian) HORSES AND CATTLE WITH ABORIGINAL STATION HAND, WELLWOOD FARM, ORANGE, NSW, c.1840 – 1850 oil on canvas 64.0 x 91.5 cm PROVENANCE Collection Wellwood Farm, Orange, New South Wales Private collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above, c. 1970 Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney

      Deutscher and Hackett
    • Attributed to Joseph Backler (1813 - 1895) - Portrait of a Young Woman in Black 89.5 x 72.5cm
      Jul. 27, 2018

      Attributed to Joseph Backler (1813 - 1895) - Portrait of a Young Woman in Black 89.5 x 72.5cm

      Est: $500 - $700

      Attributed to Joseph Backler (1813 - 1895) Portrait of a Young Woman in Black oil on canvas 89.5 x 72.5cm unsigned

      Lawsons
    • JOSEPH BACKLER, (c.1813 – 1895), VIEW OF GOULBURN, 1846, oil on canvas
      Apr. 18, 2018

      JOSEPH BACKLER, (c.1813 – 1895), VIEW OF GOULBURN, 1846, oil on canvas

      Est: $30,000 - $40,000

      JOSEPH BACKLER, (c.1813 – 1895), VIEW OF GOULBURN, 1846, oil on canvas DIMENSIONS: 80.0 x 100.0 cm PROVENANCE: Probably: Hugh Bonython, Adelaide Private collection, Melbourne Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney EXHIBITED: On loan to the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1987 (label attached verso, owner: Mr W. Rice) ESSAY: If the eighteen-year-old Londoner, Joseph Backler, caught and convicted for passing forged cheques, had not had his death sentence commuted to transportation for life, Australian art, especially portraiture, would have been much poorer. A prolific painter, Backler, had to go through further privations, including nine years at Port Macquarie, place of secondary punishment, before receiving his ticket of leave. On the good side were his landscapes of the settlement, including St. Thomas' Church, Port Macquarie (Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney), as well as marriage to Margaret Magner in that same church in 1842. Back in Sydney, he remained there until we learn from an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald of 30 August 1845 that he was in Goulburn offering his services as a portrait painter.1 Contact is given in the name of ‘J. Sinclair’ Goulburn. Today, a portrait of James Sinclair by Backler is also in the collection of the Mitchell Library. The presence of an artist in Goulburn in 1846 aroused considerable interest. Even more so two, the Sydney Morning Herald reporting on the activities of Backler and a ‘…Mr. Ellis, who has recently come amongst us’.2 Both painted views of Goulburn, that of Backler’s arousing much comment. Believing our painting to be the same, the newspaper reported that his landscape was ‘much admired’; but raised the matter of the railway line to Sydney, much talked about at the time. Mr Backler has: … given us the benefit of railways by introducing a locomotive with its train, steaming along: but being too much in advance of the times, and the gentleman for whom it was painted wishing a correct representation of the town as it is, the locomotive is to be put hors de combat, which will no doubt give satisfaction to the croskers: it was painted, however, before Mr. Woore’s report appeared, but he and the artist seem both to have been of one mind as to the whereabouts the terminus should be at this end. Thomas Woore was a leading pastoralist near Goulburn. When the colonial government refused to have a survey undertaken for the proposed railway, Woore had possible routes investigated at his own expense. The results were reported to a meeting in Sydney in August, much in time with Backler’s painting. The subsequent government wranglings and failure of the venture became part of history, as has the painting. The topographical spread of the town is picturesquely arranged with towering gums to frame the composition, historic Georgian buildings positioned in their best view. The ‘unrivalled’ Goulburn Hotel, opened by Nathan Mandelson in 1846, is prominent in white, two-storied splendour. Mandelson had substantial interests in the same company proposed for the construction of the private railway, meetings being held in the hotel’s ballroom. Prominent among the other buildings is the Anglican Church of St. Saviour, designed by the Sydney architect, James Hume. Crowned by a square western tower, it was built of red brick in 1840 to a characteristic English design. Replaced in 1874 by the present Gothic-styled cathedral designed by Edmund Blacket, the church’s bricks were reused in the cathedral’s floor. From Goulburn, Backler went forward to other towns, painting landscapes of Bathurst c.1847 and Tenterfield 1861, and many other portraits.4 1. ‘Goulburn’, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 August 1845, p. 1 2. ‘Goulburn. Fine Arts’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1 September 1846, p. 2 3. ibid. The French phrase ‘hors de combat’ translates as ‘out of the fight’ 4. (View of Bathurst from Victoria Cottage Farm), c.1847, oil on canvas mounted on composition board, 55 x 88.5 cm, in the collection of the Mitchell Library (ML973), State Library of New South Wales, Sydney; (View of Tenterfield), 1861, oil on canvas, 66.5 x 89 cm, private collection DAVID THOMAS

      Deutscher and Hackett
    • Attributed to Joseph Backler (1813 - 1895) - Portrait of a Woman 89.5 x 72.5cm
      Jul. 27, 2017

      Attributed to Joseph Backler (1813 - 1895) - Portrait of a Woman 89.5 x 72.5cm

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Attributed to Joseph Backler (1813 - 1895) Portrait of a Woman oil on canvas 89.5 x 72.5cm unsigned

      Lawsons
    • Joseph Backler (1813-1895) Jessie Bowmaker 1859
      Oct. 18, 2014

      Joseph Backler (1813-1895) Jessie Bowmaker 1859

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      Joseph Backler (1813-1895) Jessie Bowmaker 1859 Oil on canvas measuring 74.5 x 61.5 cm. Signed J Backler 1859 lower right. Post it note verso indicates the sitter as Jessie Bowmaker. Piece has been relined and laid down. Secondary frame.

      Barsby Auctions
    • Attributed To JOSEPH BACKLER A NAVAL OFFICER AND
      Aug. 29, 2012

      Attributed To JOSEPH BACKLER A NAVAL OFFICER AND

      Est: $20,000 - $30,000

      Attributed To JOSEPH BACKLER A NAVAL OFFICER AND HIS WIFE, c1845-50 35.5 x 30.5 cm each oil on canvas

      Deutscher and Hackett
    • Joseph Backler (c.1813-1895)
      Sep. 25, 2008

      Joseph Backler (c.1813-1895)

      Est: £3,000 - £5,000

      Joseph Backler (c.1813-1895) Portrait of a lady, seated half-length, in a black dress signed and dated 'J. Backler 1851' (lower right) oil on canvas 30 x 25¼in. (76.2 x 64.2cm.) The sitter is a member of the Spendlove family.

      Christie's
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