Edward MIDDLEDITCH
Summer landscape (1955)
oil on canvas
234.5 x 192.8 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1956
3363-4
© The Estate of Edward Middleditch, courtesy of James Hyman Gallery, London Arthur HUGHES
Fair Rosamund (1854)
oil on cardboard
40.3 x 30.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Miss Eva Gilchrist in memory of her uncle P. A. Daniel, 1956
3334-4
Augustus JOHN
White primula (1931)
oil on canvas
89.2 x 63.8 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1937
407-4
© the Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images William Quiller ORCHARDSON
The first cloud 1887
oil on canvas
134.8 x 193.7 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1887
p.312.1-1
Michael ANDREWS
A girl on the balcony (c. 1957)
oil on composition board
138.8 x 121.4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1959
99-5
© The Estate of Michael Andrews, courtesy James Hyman Gallery, London

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