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End of stables with bougainvillea / E.T. de Closay
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Title:
End of stables with bougainvillea / E.T. de Closay
Creator:
de Closay, E. T. (Tiger) (Ernest Henry Leopold), 1859-1936.
Date:
[192?]
Format:
1 painting : oil on card ; 30 x 39 cm.
Inscription:
Signed 'E. T. de Closay' lower left.
Subject:
Vaucluse House (Vaucluse, N.S.W.)
stables
historic buildings
pergolas
bougainvilleas
Description:
This picture is one of three sold to the Vaucluse Park Trust in November 1926 by the artist, Ernest 'Tiger' de Closay, a Mauritian-born painter, etcher and commercial artist who came to New South Wales around 1900. He was a designer of postcards as well as being a member of the Australian Painter Etchers Society, exhibiting at the third annual exhibition of the Society in Sydney in July 1923. His earlier work includes oil paintings of orientalist and classical subjects painted in the 1890s.
Although he was born in Port Louis, Mauritius, in July 1859, and his mother was a Mauritian, his parents had been married in Pondicherry in India and the family moved to Madras when Ernest was a child. His baptismal name was Ernest Henri Leopold de Closets, presumably anglicised to de Closay when he came to Australia from India.
Provenance:
Ernest Tiger de Closay, 1926; Vaucluse Park Trust.
Source:
Vaucluse House ; V89/1
Rights:
You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact Museums of History NSW to request permission.
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
31713
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