* Unknown (British?) A highland still {1885} Loc? [PA]

Unknown artist (British?)
A highland still
Oil on canvas, c.101.6 x 127 cm
Presented by Dr Gilbee, 1885
Unidentified; present location unknown

Little is known about this work, apparently no longer in the NGV collection (although it was still listed in the 1943 catalogue).

For further information on the donor, a medico who migrated to Australia from Scotland in the 1850s, see linked entry, and (for the Gilbee Bequest), see Fox Landing of Captain Cook 1902 {1902} NGV [PA].

Refs.

AR 1885, p.36; NGV 1894, p.125 (V.Buvelot Gallery, 8^th bay, no.8; size given as 40 x 50 inches); NGV 1905, p.163 (“Pictures on loan to country galleries”)

Cf. NGV 1943, cat.630 (under Anonymous; not illustrated)