Graham Autumnal Showers 1869 {1869} NGV [PA]

Graham, Peter (1836-1921; Scottish)
Autumnal Showers 1869
Oil on canvas, 124.7 x 174.8 cm
Purchased, 1869 (advice of Alfred Thomson)
National Gallery of Victoria (p.302.7-1)

This relatively early work, recommended enthusiastically by Thomson, was the first of three paintings by Graham to enter the NGV collection in the later 19^th century (see linked artist entry for details).

Refs.

NGV 1875, p.19; NGV 1894, p.15 (I.La Trobe Gallery, no.14; ill.); NGV 1905, p.9 (I.La Trobe Gallery, no.15; ill.) [£577/10] 

Cox NGV (1970), pp.23-24, includes a lengthy quote from Thomson’s detailed remarks in support of the painting