Gordon-Frazer, Charles (1863-99; British/Australian) John Blyth, Esq. Oil on canvas, c. 162.6 x 106.7 cm (64” x 42”) Presented by subscribers, 1890 Unidentified; present location unknown The sitter (1824-1908) came to Victoria in 1852, and established himself as a successful businessman in Melbourne from the early 1860s; in the 1880s, he was Chairman of the
Gordon-Frazer, Charles (1863-99; British/Australian) Benjamin Cowderoy 1890 Oil on canvas, 235 x 145 cm Presented by the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce 1890 State Library of Victoria (H141869) Cowderoy (1812-1904) was a magistrate and businessman who arrived in Melbourne in 1852, and was elected to the first council of St Kilda in 1857. His grave at the St Kilda
Works included in this catalogue Gordon-Frazer Benjamin Cowderoy 1890 {1890} SLV? [PA] Gordon-Frazer John Blyth {1890} Loc? [PA] Gordon-Frazer travelled widely in the Pacific and South East Asia from 1885 onwards, dying of blackwater fever in Siam (Thailand) at the age of only 36. Shortly after the two portraits noted above entered the Melbourne collection
Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904; English) Rachel Going to the Well 1867 Oil on canvas, 153.5 x 109.0 cm Purchased, 1867 National Gallery of Victoria (p.300.12-1) Goodall, a member of a family of artists, pursued a highly successful career, specializing mainly in Egyptian subjects. NGV 1894 and 1905 both state that this work is a replica, commissioned by
Glover, S. (details unknown) Scene in the North of England Panel, c.20 x 30 cm Presented by William Malcolm, 1870 Unidentified; present location unknown This small panel was listed in NGV 1894 as presented in 1870, but it does not appear in the gallery’s annual report for that year, or NGV 1905. Further details have yet
Gebler, Friedrich Otto (1838-1917; German) Study of a wild boar Oil on paper, 15.6 x 24.5 cm Purchased, 1891 National Gallery of Victoria (p.392.122-1) This work was acquired as the work of Clara Folingsby: see Folingsby (C.) Oil studies {1891} NGV/Loc? [PA]. However, it was later recognized as by Gebler, a specialist in animal painting.
Fuller, Florence Ada (1867-1946; Australian) Barak: last chief of the Yarra Yarra Tribe of Aborigines 1885 Oil on board, 62.2 x 46.9 cm Gift of Mrs Anne Fraser Bon, 1901 State Library of Victoria (H24649) For William Barak (1824-1903), see linked artist entry, and separate entries on two of his paintings acquired for the Melbourne collection prior
Frost, William Edward (1810-77) Samson slaying a Philistine Oil on canvas, c.195 x 99 cm Purchased, 1874; de-accessioned and sold at auction, 1941 Unidentified, present location unknown A large work, this canvas showed “two life-size figures,” according to the gallery’s annual report for 1872; it was listed in NGV 1894, but not the 1905 catalogue.
Frère, Pierre Edouard (1819-86; French) Cottage Interior Oil on canvas, c.28 x 25.5 cm (11” x 10”) Purchased, 1872 (advice of John Ruskin) Present location unknown [photo: work as reproduced in NGV 1905] A typical 19th-century genre painter in the Dutch tradition, Frère was praised extravagantly by Ruskin (NGV advisor 1871-2), who compared him with
Fox, Emmanuel Phillips (1865-1915; Australian) The Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, 1770 1902 Oil on canvas, 192.2 x 265.4 cm Gilbee Bequest 1902 National Gallery of Victoria (119-2) John McDonald (2008) calls this “without doubt the most lifeless and boring picture Fox ever painted.” However Ruth Zubans, in a detailed discussion in her 1995
Fox, Emmanuel Phillips (1865-1915; Australian) Sir Frederick Sargood, K.C.M.G., Minister of the Crown, Victoria 1897 Oil on canvas, 201.5 x 101.7 cm Presented by subscribers, 1897 State Library of Victoria (H141872) Sargood (1834-1903) arrived in Victoria with his family in 1850, and made his fortune as a merchant. His expansive Elsternwick mansion, Rippon Lea – now
Fox, Emmanuel Phillips (1865-1915; Australian) Robert L.Ellery, Government Astronomer 1896 Oil on canvas, 128.6 x 94.4 cm Presented by subscribers, 1897 National Gallery of Victoria (34-2) The sitter (1827-1908) was Victoria’s first Government Astronomer, from 1853-95. He was also President of the Royal Society of Victoria (1866-84), a member of the council of the University