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Mosman's Bay 1889

By
John Mather
Contributed By
Art Gallery of New South Wales
[4402]
(pencil, watercolour, white gouache, 39.0 x 54.0cm; Purchased 1890)

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Mather, John

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Artists' camps

Sydney's artists' camps flourished around the harbour from the 1880s until the 1910s, allowing young artists to live cheaply together and paint their surroundings in the open air.

Boats

Painting

Mosman Bay

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Sheltered bay on Sydney's north shore, named for Archibald Mosman, whaler. Earlier known as Great Sirius Cove after the HMS Sirius that was careened there in 1789.

Mosman

Large suburb on Sydney's lower north shore which, since colonial times, has been home to civil maritime and defence installations, and is also a popular recreation area, with many harbour beaches, Taronga Zoo and pockets of Sydney Harbour National Park.

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Mather, John

Scottish born plein-air artist and etcher.

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