Caroline Simpson Collection

Clyde Bank : Un salotto due ottocento : The drawing room / Janet Venn-Brown

Venn-Brown, Janet

1999

1 painting : tempera on paper ; 22 x 33 cm.

Signed: "Janet Venn-Brown 2.8.99" bottom right corner. Verso of picture carries the description "Clyde Bank, Sydney, the drawing room room : un salotto due ottocento. Painted for Caroline Simpson as part of a series of 10 or 11 altogether" and artist's signature with date.

Clyde Bank (The Rocks, N.S.W.)
domestic interiors
drawing rooms
desks
fireplaces
mantles (fireplaces)
chairs
paintings
interior decoration

After living in Rome for over 40 years, Australian artist Janet Venn-Brown returned to Sydney in 2010. Soon after, she donated five of her Clyde Bank paintings to the Caroline Simpson Library and Research Collection.
Caroline Simpson originally commissioned these pictures, depicting the interiors of her museum, Clyde Bank, in 1999. The paintings capture in detail the objects displayed in each room, as well as the interior architecture of one of Sydney's early historic buildings.

Janet Venn-Brown.

The five Clyde Bank pictures were included in an exhibition titled "An inside view - paintings by Janet Venn-Brown", held in the Members' Lounge at The Mint, Macquarie Street, Sydney from 31st January to 25th March 2011.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ;

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