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Masters George, William and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware
(1856)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 63.7 × 76.4 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Victoria
- Accession Number
- 2007.115
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Eleanor M. Borrow Bequest, 2007
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Robert Dowling was the first European artist to emerge from the Australian colonies. During the 1850s he painted throughout Van Diemen’s Land and Victoria, before moving to London in 1857. The Dowling and Ware families, connected by the marriage of Robert Dowling’s brother Thomas to Maria Ware, were among the earliest Baptists in Tasmania. Three of the Ware brothers had become successful pastoralists in the Western District in the 1830s and provided much-needed patronage to Dowling throughout his career. This painting illustrates the warm relationship that existed between the Ware family and local Mopor people.
- Subjects (general)
- Landscapes Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- children (people by age group) dog (species) men (male humans) trees Victoria (state)
- Frame
- Original, maker unknown