Exceptional Australian Colonial Art Auction Results

Deutscher and Hackett has an outstanding record with the sale of a wide range of nineteenth-century Australian colonial art. Our fine art auction house has achieved excellent auction results for artists including George French Angas, Thomas Balcombe, Louis Buvelot, Thomas Clark, Nicholas Chevalier, Robert Dowling, S.T. Gill, John Glover, Conrad Martens, William Charles Piguenit, George Augustus Robinson, Alexander Schramm, Eugene Von Guerard and Thomas Wainewright.

If you would like a complimentary appraisal of your Australian colonial art, please request an appraisal or contact us to speak with an art specialist.

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ROBERT DOWLING
(1827 - 1886)
MASTERS GEORGE, WILLIAM AND MISS HARRIET WARE
WITH THE ABORIGINE JAMIE WARE, 1856
oil on canvas
68.0 x 96.0 cm

Estimate: $550,000 – 650,000
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 9 & 10 May 2007
Sold for $810,000 (inc. BP), an auction record for the artist
Acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
 

THOMAS CLARK
(c.1814 - 1883)
MURNDAL IN THE EARLY DAYS, 1860
oil on canvas
58.5 x 107.0 cm

Estimate: $200,000 – 300,000
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 26 August 2009
Sold for $312,000 (inc. BP) 
 

CONRAD MARTENS 
(1801 - 1878)
STORM OVER NORTH HEAD, 1856
watercolour heightened with gouache and gum arabic on paper
45.0 x 65.0 cm

Estimate: $100,000 – 140,000
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 6 May 2015
Sold for $144,000 (inc. BP) 
 

THOMAS CLARK
(c.1814 - 1883)
PORTRAIT OF HIS EXCELLENCY SIR HENRY BARKLY,
GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA, c.1864
oil on canvas
75.5 x 49.0 cm

Estimate: $100,000 – 150,000
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 29 August 2007
Sold for $90,000 (inc. BP)