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Painter, b. 1814 - d. 1864

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    • ATTRIBUTED TO CONWAY HART, (1814 - 1864), - PAIR OF PORTRAITS OF SAMUEL AND ROSETTA MOSES WITH CHILDREN, HOBART TOWN, c.1855-1856, oil on canvas
      May. 04, 2016

      ATTRIBUTED TO CONWAY HART, (1814 - 1864), - PAIR OF PORTRAITS OF SAMUEL AND ROSETTA MOSES WITH CHILDREN, HOBART TOWN, c.1855-1856, oil on canvas

      Est: $150,000 - $200,000

      ATTRIBUTED TO CONWAY HART, (1814 - 1864), - PAIR OF PORTRAITS OF SAMUEL AND ROSETTA MOSES WITH CHILDREN, HOBART TOWN, c.1855-1856, oil on canvas DIMENSIONS: 165.0 x 124.5 each PROVENANCE: Commissioned by Samuel Moses, Hobart Town, c.1855 - 56 Samuel and Rebecca Moses, ‘Derwentwater’ then ‘Boa Vista’, Hobart Town Thence by descent Alice Charlotte (nee Moses) and Michael Simons, United Kingdom Thence by descent Dr. Lance M. J. Kramer, Exeter, United Kingdom, grandson of the above Thence by descent Michael Walford, Baughurst, Hampshire, United Kingdom, inherited from the above c.1997, grandson of Mr and Mrs Howard Joseph Moses The estate of Michael Walford, Baughurst, Hampshire, United Kingdom, 2016 Dreweatts - Bloomsbury auction, Berkshire, United Kingdom, 23 February 2016 Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above EXHIBITED: Conway Hart Portrait Gallery, Liverpool Street, Hobart Town, August - September 1856 RELATED WORK: The Arbour, 1910, oil on canvas, 190.5 x 230.5 cm, collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne ESSAY: The thirteen children of Samuel and Rosetta Moses Clara, b. 1837, d. 1909 Alfred Samuel, b. 1839, d. 1872 Harriette Rachel, b. c.1840, d. 1853 Gertrude, b. 1842 Louis, b. 1843 Edward John, b.1846, d. 1915 Unknown daughter, b. 1847 Alice Charlotte, b. 1847, d. 1920 Ernest Leopold, b. 1848, d. 1920 Henry, b. 1850, d. 1883 Lawrence Hyam, b. 1852 Lionel David, b. 1854, d. 1923 Howard Joseph Samuel, b. 1855, d. 1920 The recent discovery of this important pair of colonial paintings, commissioned in Hobart Town in the mid 1850s, presents a rare example of descending family provenance over 160 years from the sitters, Samuel and Rosetta Moses, to the recent Estate of Michael Walford, their great-grandson. These large scale and ambitious family portraits are rare visual records of the Moses family, eminent residents of Hobart Town during a significant period of colonial development. The paintings present various layers of historical significance. Samuel Moses was an active and influential member of the small Jewish community in Van Diemen’s Land and contributed to the building of one of Australia’s first synagogues. His commercial interests, alongside a growing shipping fleet, embraced a wide range of importing, exporting and merchant activities. The Moses family appears to have been at the forefront of social and community activities in Hobart Town throughout most of the 1840s and 50s. Samuel Moses was a member of The Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land and the first Jewish Justice of the Peace in Australia and New Zealand. The addition of these two significant paintings to the recorded works attributed to Conway Hart, expands our knowledge of the artist, a prominent but lesser known colonial portrait painter working in London, Melbourne, Hobart Town and Calcutta. The circumstances surrounding the portraits’ commissions are controversial following a civil law suit brought against Samuel Moses by the artist Frederick Frith, with Conway Hart as a reluctant witness. The attribution to Conway Hart rather than Frederick Frith is based on our knowledge of a second portrait commission of ‘Mr. And Mrs. Moses and Family’ from Conway Hart in 1855–56 following the legal dispute over the Frith portraits. The description of the Frith portraits in court identify different numbers of children accompanying each parent in each painting. Stylistically the paintings are typical of Conway Hart with the treatment of Rosetta Moses and her lace shawl closely comparable with the artist’s Portrait of Elizabeth Selab Miller, Hobart, c. 1855, M.J.M. Carter AO Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. The larger scale of the paintings, with joined canvas, is also typical of Conway Hart, whose life size portrait of Richard Dry, Esquire, Late Speaker of the Legislative Council, Hobart 1855, collection of the Parliament of Tasmania, is amongst the largest portrait paintings from the period. The Pair of Portraits of Samuel and Rosetta Moses with Children, c.1855–56, have previously been dated to 1855 by Michael Walford (1924–2015), the great-grandson of Samuel and Rosetta. The identity of the children in each painting was also provided by Michael Walford in 1997, but may not be entirely correct. Assuming the date of 1855 and consistent with Michael Walford’s identification, two of the children accompanying Samuel Moses (age 48) would appear to be Clara (age 18) and Ernest (age 7); three of the children accompanying Rosetta Moses (age 35) would appear to be Alice (age 8), Louis (age 12) and Edward (age 9).

      Deutscher and Hackett
    • Conway Weston Hart (British, fl.1849)
      Nov. 19, 2003

      Conway Weston Hart (British, fl.1849)

      Est: £6,000 - £8,000

      A drummer boy of the Light Company of an infantry regiment, circa. 1850 signed 'C. hart' (lower right) oil on canvas 76.5 x 64 cm. (30 x 25 1/4 in.)

      Bonhams
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