Isaac Whitehead Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Isaac Whitehead Art Value Price Guide

Jan. 19, 2023
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819 - 1882) - Australian Landscape oil on canvas 29 x 42 cm (frame: 45 x 59 x 5 cm)
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819 - 1882) Australian Landscape oil on canvas 29 x 42 cm (frame: 45 x 59 x 5 cm) signed lower left
Lawsons
Oct. 16, 2022
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881) "AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE"
Est: $5,000 - $9,000
Fine oil painting on canvas signed lower right (remains of old Melbourne gallery label verso-Ex. Australian Fine Art -London) 42cm x 29cm
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers
Apr. 13, 2022
ISAAC WHITEHEAD, VICTORIAN LANDSCAPE WITH MOUNTAINS, C.1870
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819 - 1881) VICTORIAN LANDSCAPE WITH MOUNTAINS, c.1870 watercolour on paper 30.5 x 48.5 cm 51.5 x 69.5 cm (frame) PROVENANCE Private collection, Adelaide This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 26, 2019
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881) Milford Sound 1878 oil on canvas
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881) Milford Sound 1878 oil on canvas signed and dated lower left: 1878 I. Whitehead 54 x 76cm PROVENANCE: The Artist's Family Thence by descent Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Sep. 03, 2019
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (c.1819-1881) Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge c.1877 oil on canvas
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (c.1819-1881) Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge c.1877 oil on canvas unsigned George Rowney & Co. maker's stamp verso 51 x 78cm PROVENANCE: Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Probably The Seventh Exhibition of the Victorian Academy of Arts, held in the Academy's New Building, Eastern Hill, Melbourne, 17 March 1877, cat. no.12 Selected Australian Works of Art, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 19 October - 6 November 1981, cat. no. 14 Annual Collectors' Exhibition, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1 October - 8 November, 2008 The Painted Vision: 1840 - 1963, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 3 October - 30 November 2009 Resale Royalty and the Collector, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 11 August 2010 - 18 September 2010 LITERATURE: Probably The Academy of Arts Exhibition, Argus, Melbourne, 17 March 1877, p.8
Leonard Joel
Apr. 27, 2019
Isaac Whitehead (1819-1881), oil on canvas, 1869 Early Autumn Farm, written and signed on verso: I. P. Whitehead Bella 1876...
Est: $800 - $1,200
Isaac Whitehead (1819-1881), oil on canvas, 1869 Early Autumn Farm, written and signed on verso: I. P. Whitehead Bella 1876 1869 Early Autumn Farm Sketch, 6" x 11"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Apr. 18, 2018
ISAAC WHITEHEAD, (1819 – 1881), OCEAN BEACH, SORRENTO, 1876, oil on canvas
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
ISAAC WHITEHEAD, (1819 – 1881), OCEAN BEACH, SORRENTO, 1876, oil on canvas SIGNED: signed and dated lower right: I Whitehead 1876 DIMENSIONS: 80.0 x 108.0 cm PROVENANCE: Private collection Christie’s, Melbourne, 28 April 1976, lot 402 Private collection, Melbourne Thence by descent Private collection, Sydney EXHIBITED: The Sixth Exhibition of the Victorian Academy of Arts, Victorian Academy of Arts, Melbourne, 1876, cat. 62 (as ‘Ocean Beach’) Sixth Annual Exhibition of Works of Colonial Art, New South Wales Academy of Art, Sydney, 1877, cat. 31 (as ‘Ocean Beach, Sorento [sic] Bay, Victoria’) Exposition Universelle de Paris, Paris, 1878, first group, class 1, cat. 7 19th & 20th Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1 May – 7 June 1996, cat. 3 (illus. in exhibition catalogue) (label attached verso) LITERATURE: ‘Victorian Academy of Arts’, Argus, Melbourne, 10 April 1876, p. 7 Thomas, D., Australian Art in the 1870s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1976, p. 46 Sheen, P., ‘Whitehead, Isaac’, in Kerr, J., The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992, p. 85 ESSAY: Isaac Whitehead, like his great contemporary Eugene von Guérard, was much admired for his masterly paintings of the sublime in nature. In 1875, the year before our painting, he was singled out, after Von Guérard and Louis Buvelot, as: ‘Another aspirant for fame as a delineator of Australian scenery is Mr. Isaac Whitehead, who during the last three or four years, has made wonderful progress, and may now be said to be most successful in reproducing upon canvas the distinctive features of the scenery he portrays’.1 A grand painting from that year, In the Sassafras Valley, Victoria, is now in the M. J. M. Carter Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Another, of similarly imposing dimensions, Fernshaw, 1880, is in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. While Whitehead and von Guérard shared a romantic view of nature, transforming the topographical view into a celebration of grandeur, the latter’s attention to detail was outstripped by Whitehead’s botanical accuracy in the rendering of the different species of fern and gum. They also differed in the warmer tones and brighter touches of sunlight Whitehead introduced into the depths of his forests, banishing shades of that colonial melancholia that lingered in the work of others. In achieving this, Whitehead combined the best of von Guérard with the more settled atmosphere of Buvelot to create his own, unique image of Australia. Significantly, when Whitehead and von Guérard showed two paintings each at the Exposition Universelle de Paris of 1878, it was Whitehead who was awarded a silver medal. His winning works were Ocean Beach, Sorrento, 1876 (our painting on offer), and Fernshaw, Victoria. Dublin-born Whitehead settled in Melbourne with his family in about 1858. He soon came to prominence as the colony’s leading picture framer; his superbly worked golden frames featuring native plants are still seen today on the paintings of his leading contemporaries. A foundation member of and regular exhibitor with the Victorian Academy of Arts, he also participated successfully in the Melbourne Internationals of 1879 and 1880. Prior to its Paris showing, Ocean Beach, Sorrento was seen by an admiring Melbourne public in the Victorian Academy’s annual exhibition of 1876, and again in Sydney at the New South Wales Academy of Art of 1877. Although Whitehead’s paintings show him chiefly occupied with scenic landscapes, an early sketchbook from his days in Ireland reveals an interest in coastal views as well.2 This is supported by another seascape, Wilson’s Promontory, seen in the Victorian Academy’s annual exhibition of 1878, the price of £31.10.0 indicating it was a substantial work. In Ocean Beach, Sorrento Whitehead combined his gifted eye for detail and the spectacular with an understanding of the moods of the sea and sky. The storm blowing up is echoed in and embraced by the curves of the land. The air is salt-laden, as, driven by the wind, the scrub moves in harmony with the sweep of clouds and white-capped waves. The minute scale of the figures, cradled in the arms of the shore and along its path, speaks of the awe-inspiring majesty of nature. 1. Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition, 1875: Preparatory to the Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876, official catalogue of exhibits, Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition, printed for the Commissioners by M'carron, Bird & Co, Melbourne, 1875, p. 208 2. Sheen, op. cit., p. 856 DAVID THOMAS
Deutscher and Hackett
Mar. 01, 2017
† Isaac Whitehead (Australian, 1819-1881) In Milford Sound, West Coast, New Zealand
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
Isaac Whitehead (Australian, 1819-1881) In Milford Sound, West Coast, New Zealand signed and dated 'I. Whitehead/1878' (lower right), inscribed '...ford Sound/West Coast N.Z./by I. Whitehead/Melbourne' on label on reverse oil on canvas 91.5 x 117cm (36 x 46 1/16in). Footnotes Provenance Property of an important Public Limited Company The present lot depicts Lady Bowen Falls in Milford Sound, located in New Zealand's Fiordland National Park in the South Island. At 162m high, it is the tallest waterfall in the national park, facing Mitre Peak and marking the end of the River Bowen, dropping from a hanging valley and into the head of Milford Sound. The waterfall is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (c.1832-1893), née La Contessa Diamantina di Roma, who was the wife of Sir George Bowen (1859-1868), a much-decorated British colonial administrator and fifth Governor of New Zealand (1868-1873). Milford Sound's picturesque setting has long been an attraction for tourists, with the poet Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) describing the area as 'the eighth Wonder of the World'. Isaac Whitehead was born in Dublin to Joseph Whitehead, a carver and gilder, and Ann (née Studdard). He emigrated to Melbourne, Australia in c.1858, and later travelled to New Zealand in 1877-78. Whitehead painted several other views of Milford Sound and nearby areas of the west coast of the South Island.
Bonhams
Sep. 22, 2016
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881, New Zealand), Milford Sound, New Zealand 1878
Est: $18,000 - $26,000
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881, New Zealand) Milford Sound, New Zealand 1878, oil on canvas, 60.5 x 91.5 cm signed and dated lower right: I Whitehead 1878
Menzies
Jun. 25, 2015
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881) Woolshed Creek, Beechworth 1877
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881) Woolshed Creek, Beechworth 1877 oil on canvas 69.0 x 112.5 cm signed and dated lower right: I. Whitehead/ 1877 remnants of hand-written label from the artist attached verso
Menzies
Sep. 23, 2012
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881) Milford Sound 1878 oil on canvas
Est: $14,000 - $16,000
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881) Milford Sound 1878 oil on canvas signed and dated '1878 I. Whitehead' lower left 55 x 75.5cm PROVENANCE The artist's family, thence by descent
Leonard Joel
Apr. 14, 2008
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819 - 1881) Upper Yarra signed
Est: $8,000 - $14,000
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819 - 1881) Upper Yarra signed 'I. Whitehead' and dated lower right oil on panel, 44 x 59.5 cm. Provenance: Collection of Alois Svhla, Gallery 99, Cardigan St, Carlton, thence by descent.
Leonard Joel
Nov. 29, 2004
ISAAC WHITEHEAD (1819-1881)
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1872 lower right; inscribed with artist's name and title on label on the reverse
Sotheby's