Artist Unknown
Mr Gamaliel Butler (1783-1852), Van Diemen's Land, c.1824.
The subject was a lawyer who established a law firm in Hobart after arriving in 1824. He became a significant landowner, supporter of charitable causes, and eventually a director of the bank of Van Diemen's Land.
Attribution to Thomas BOCK by Nevin Hurst, Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, Hobart (as at June 2016). Fiddleback blackwood frame.
Lithograph
25.5x19cm (sight)

PROVENANCE:
Direct descent from Robin Vaughan Hood, early Tasmanian picture framer, to his great-great grandson, Robert Hood.

Estimate $200-400



Condition: Foxing


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