Jane (1853) Sutherland Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Jane (1853) Sutherland Art Value Price Guide

Apr. 24, 2024
JANE SUTHERLAND, THE PEACH ORCHARD, C. 1910
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
JANE SUTHERLAND (1853 - 1928) THE PEACH ORCHARD, c. 1910 pastel on paper 27.0 x 38.0 cm (sight) signed lower left: J. Sutherland PROVENANCE Private collection, Melbourne Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED Victorian Artists' Society's Exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, October 1910, cat. 5 A Century of Australian Women Artists, 1840s – 1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 3 June – 3 July 1993, cat. 31 LITERATURE Hammond, V., A Century of Australian Women Artists 1840s – 1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1993, cat. 31, p. 53 (illus.)
Deutscher and Hackett
Apr. 24, 2024
JANE SUTHERLAND, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST’S COUSIN, C. 1895
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
JANE SUTHERLAND (1853 - 1928) PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST’S COUSIN, c. 1895 oil on canvas 56.0 x 43.5 cm signed lower right: J. Sutherland PROVENANCE Brenda Sutherland, Melbourne Christie's, Sydney, 6 October 1976, lot 189 (as 'Portrait of Brenda Sutherland, Cousin of the Artist') Private collection Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 11 May 1977, lot 240A (as 'Portrait of Brenda Sutherland, Cousin of the Artist') Private collection, Melbourne Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1993 EXHIBITED Sutherland, The Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, 8 – 30 September 1977, cat. 12 (as 'Portrait') A selection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Australian Art, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 24 May – 9 June 1989, cat. 18 (as '(The artist's cousin)') A Century of Australian Women Artists 1840s – 1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 4 June – 3 July 1993, cat. 30 LITERATURE Hammond, V., A Century of Australian Women Artists 1840s – 1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1993, cat. 30, p. 53 (illus., as '(The artist's cousin)') ESSAY This striking portrait of a young cousin is a compelling example of the art of Jane Sutherland, one of the leading women artists working in Melbourne in the later nineteenth century. Together with friends and colleagues including Clara Southern, Jane Price and May Vale, Sutherland was a vocal and visible advocate for the participation of women in creative fields in the years leading up to (white) women’s national suffrage, granted in 1902. Sutherland had arrived in Melbourne as a teenager with her parents, numerous siblings and soon, an extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins. The family were liberal, musical and artistic, and the siblings received their earliest art lessons and encouragement from their father George. In 1871, Sutherland commenced formal artistic training at the recently formed National Gallery School the following year. Over a fourteen-year period, her teachers included Thomas Clark, Eugene von Guérard, George Folingsby and Frederick McCubbin. Commended as a student, Sutherland exhibited regularly with local artist groups from the later 1870s. In 1888 she and her friend Clara Southern were among the first to established a studio in the Grosvenor Chambers on Collins Street: by the following year, it was reported that ‘Miss Sutherland is one of the busiest lady artists in Melbourne, as, in addition to her painting, she has several pupils, whom she receives individually or in classes, giving close attention to drawing, as the absolutely necessary groundwork.’1 Sutherland was an active and accomplished participant in Melbourne’s artistic circles: the Grosvenor Chambers had swiftly become a hub for eager artists, with fellow tenants including Roberts, Price Charles Conder and Louis Abrahams. The Sutherland family’s interest in bushwalking corresponded with the younger generation of artists’ increasing interest in plein air painting; from the mid-1880s, Sutherland joined with fellow artists Roberts, Frederick McCubbin, Walter Withers and others on sketching trips around Melbourne. Being female, however, protocols limited the camping that she was able to undertake. It is not surprising that women and children form the majority of subjects depicted in Sutherland and her female contemporaries’ landscapes, as in Sutherland’s The mushroom gatherers, c.1895 and Field naturalists, c.1896 (both in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria). Sutherland’s extended family provide a rich source of material for her watercolours, oil paintings and increasingly, after she suffered a debilitating stroke in 1900, her pastels. This portrait is believed to depict her cousin Brenda, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne, and was awarded a coveted travel scholarship to further her study in Canada and the United States.2 Returning to Melbourne she converted her father’s boys’ school Carlton College into a College of Domestic Economy, a field that Brenda advocated over many years as a profession and career for women.3 It has also been suggested that this young woman, with her red tresses reflecting their Scottish ancestry, may depict Brenda’s elder sister Sheila, who opened the Melbourne Book Club in Collins Street in 1918: a painting titled Sheila was exhibited in the Victorian Artists’ Society winter exhibition in 1890.4 1. ‘Miss Jane Sutherland’ Table Talk, 2 Aug. 1889, p. 7 2. ‘Scientist wins distinction’, The Herald, 11 July, 1916, p. 5 3. ‘Domestic arts neglected’, The Herald, 28 May 1918, p. 4 4. Victoria Hammond, A Century of Australian Women Artists 1840s–1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne 1993, p. 53 ALISA BUNBURY
Deutscher and Hackett
Apr. 24, 2024
JANE SUTHERLAND, THE MUSHROOM GATHERERS, C.1895 – 1900
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
JANE SUTHERLAND (1853 - 1928) THE MUSHROOM GATHERERS, c.1895 – 1900 pastel and gouache on paper 35.5 x 76.5 cm signed lower right: J. Sutherland PROVENANCE Private collection, United Kingdom, by 1970s Private collection, Scotland Private collection, United Kingdom LITERATURE Lindsay, F. & Rosewarne, S., Sutherland (exhibition catalogue), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1977, p. 11 Burke, J., Australian Women Artists 1840 - 1940, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1980, p. 182 RELATED WORK The mushroom gatherers, c.1895, oil on canvas, 41.8 x 99.3 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne ESSAY Although their names remain comparatively little known, there were women artists among the ranks of Australia’s leading Impressionists, and Jane Sutherland is one such figure. Born in Glasgow in 1855, she emigrated to Australia with her family and settled in Melbourne in 1870, enrolling at the National Gallery School the following year. Her father, George, was an artist and he enrolled at the same time, either to refine his drawing skills or to chaperone his daughter.1 Frederick McCubbin was a fellow student and became a lifelong friend. With McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Walter Withers and E. Phillips Fox, among others, Sutherland took part in the first outdoor painting excursions to Box Hill during the mid-1880s, although propriety demanded that she didn’t camp with the men overnight. Her artistic skill was recognised early on with the award (received jointly with McCubbin) in 1874 of the Gallery School’s prize for drawing the ‘best figure in the round’ and her commitment to the life of a professional artist (she did not marry), as well as the camaraderie and respect she enjoyed among her male peers, is reflected in the range of her activities. In addition to exhibiting with the Victorian Academy of Arts from 1878, she regularly contributed to the annual Victorian Artists’ Society (VAS) exhibitions between 1888 and 1911. She was a member of the Buonarotti Society (the only female member to chair these gatherings), and in early 1900, she became the first woman to be elected to the Council of the VAS.2 By 1888, she had established a studio in Grosvenor Chambers on Collins Street (alongside Roberts, Louis Abrahams and Jane Price, among others), which she shared with Clara Southern. In 1889, she was described as ‘one of the busiest lady artists in Melbourne as, in addition to her painting, she has several pupils, whom she receives individually or in classes, giving close attention to drawing, as the absolutely necessary groundwork.’3 This work in gouache and pastel is closely related to one of Sutherland’s most well-known paintings, The Mushroom Gatherers, c.1895 in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Exhibited at the VAS in 1895, the oil painting drew praise from the Table Talk critic who wrote, ‘Miss Jane Sutherland… has secured a very attractive and poetic effect in Mushroom Gatherers. The cold greyness characteristic of early dawn is perfectly represented, and the figures are posed in a natural and life-like manner… There is also very much in the picture that tells of studious and earnest observation of natural effects seen in the Australian landscape.’4 The composition is almost identical, with the exception of a tree stump which is omitted in this version, and Sutherland’s ability to capture the atmosphere and delicate colours of the landscape in soft morning light is clear. This work also reflects her interest in the theme of figures (often children from the artist’s extended family) in the landscape, which is seen in other paintings including Field Naturalists, c.1896 (National Gallery of Victoria) and Far-a-field, 1896 (private collection). Sutherland rarely dated her work and while she is known to have worked in pastel after suffering a stroke in 1900, and sometimes repeated subjects of earlier works, they are typically modest in scale. The large format of this work, which is only slightly smaller than the oil painting, makes it tempting to suggest the possibility of an earlier date. 1. See Lindsay, F., ‘Jane Sutherland: Thoroughly Australian Landscapes’ in Lane, T., Australian Impressionism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, p. 225 2. ibid., p. 226 3. ‘Miss Jane Sutherland’, Table Talk, Melbourne, 2 August 1889, p. 7 4. ‘Victorian Artists’ Exhibition’, Table Talk, Melbourne, 17 May 1895, p. 11 KIRST GRANT
Deutscher and Hackett
Mar. 08, 2022
JANE SUTHERLAND (1853 - 1928) Girls picking blackberries, pastel and gouache on board, signed lower right, 23.5 x 29.5cm
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
JANE SUTHERLAND (1853 - 1928) Girls picking blackberries, pastel and gouache on board, signed lower right, 23.5 x 29.5cm. Sutherland was a landscape painter who was part of the pioneering plein-air movement in Australia, and a member of the Heidelberg School. Her advocacy for the advancment of the professional standing of female artists during the late nineteenth century was also a notable achievement. Sutherland was the leading female artist in the group of Melbourne painters who worked outside the studio; she took plein-air sketching trips to the outlying rural districts of Alphington, Templestowe and Box Hill with her male contemporaries of the Heidelberg School. Unlike her contemporaries, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder, Sutherland, as a female, was unable to stay with the men at the campsites overnight, and instead made day journeys to the campsites. Sutherland's body of work mainly focused on Australian landscapes, with the inclusion of women and children interacting with nature. Narrative is suggestive in her works as she leaves an impression of the land and her figures turn away from the viewer. Despite her efforts and success, Sutherland found difficulties in being considered a serious and professional artist. Sutherland was forced to price her paintings at a tenth of the value of her male peers. Very few are held in private collections.
Leski Auctions Pty Ltd
Nov. 23, 2020
Jane Sutherland (1853-1928)
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
First Violet pastel on paper, signed l.r.c. 'J.S'
Shapiro Auctioneers
Mar. 21, 2018
§ JANE SUTHERLAND 1853-1928 Young Girl with Flowers pastel on paper 32 x 25 cm
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
§ JANE SUTHERLAND 1853-1928 Young Girl with Flowers pastel on paper signed 'J Sutherland' lower left 32 x 25 cm PROVENANCE Private Collection, Perth
Smith & Singer
Sep. 24, 2014
JANE SUTHERLAND (1853-1928) Untitled (Figure by the Tree)
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
JANE SUTHERLAND (1853-1928) Untitled (Figure by the Tree) oil on board 49.5 x 59.5 cm
Menzies
Dec. 04, 2012
JANE SUTHERLAND (1855-1928), UNTITLED LANDSCAPE,
Est: $1,500 - $2,200
JANE SUTHERLAND (1855-1928), UNTITLED LANDSCAPE, Signed lower left, Pastel
GFL Fine Art
Apr. 22, 2008
JANE SUTHERLAND , Australian 1855 - 1928 AFTER AUTUMN RAIN Oil on canvas on board
Est: $80,000 - $120,000
Signed lower left Oil on canvas on board
Sotheby's