Lot 251: WILLIAM BUELOW GOULD (1803-1853), PAIR OF STILL LIFE STUDIES

WILLIAM BUELOW GOULD (1803-1853), PAIR OF STILL LIFE STUDIES oil on canvas(2)24 BY 29CM (EACH) The Tasmanian convict artist Willam Buelow Gould is best known for his paintings of fruit and flowers (in the decorative style of the English potteries where he once worked) and still lifes of dead game (mostly hares and pheasants). He also produced a celebrated sequence of natural history watercolours of endemic Tasmanian fish and plants, painted while on assignment to surgeon and amateur naturalist Dr James Scott 1829-1832; the former being celebrated in Richard Flanagan's award-winning novel Gould's Book of Fish (2001).