* Paulson Fruit Piece {1871} Loc? [PA]

Paulson, Annie (1806-66; English)
Fruit Piece
Oil on canvas, c.68.5 x 76 cm
Presented by J.Paulson, Esq., 1871; de-accessioned and sold at auction, 1941
Unidentified; present location unknown

The 1894 NGV catalogue, which describes this work as “unfinished,” notes that “Mrs Paulson exhibited a few pictures at the Suffolk Street Exhibition between 1838 and 1850.”

She was subsequently recorded as active in Castlemaine, Victoria, from c.1861-66, mainly as a watercolour painter; and a sketchbook of watercolours of Victorian bush flowers by her, dating from c.1859-61, was acquired by the NGV in 2008.

[comparative photo: page from sketchbook (NGV)]

Refs.

AR 1871, p.42; SB, p.302 (noting 1941 auction); NGV 1894, p.125 (V.Buvelot Gallery, 8^th bay, no.15; size given as 27 x 30 inches); not listed in NGV 1905 

For Paulson, see https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/paulson-anne.html and http://www.daao.org.au/bio/anne-paulson/personal_details/; and for her NGV sketchbook, see http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/85297/ (page 60, reproduced here, is inscribed “No.14,” dated 1859, and titled “Diuris / from Ravenswood”)