Nathaniel Hailes |
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Title : | Nathaniel Hailes |
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Creator : | Gill, S.T. (Samuel Thomas), 1818-1880 | ||
Source : | B 332 | ||
Date of creation : | ca. 1850 | ||
Format : | Artwork | ||
Dimensions : | 125 x 97 mm | ||
Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Description : |
Nathaniel Hailes. A drawing from S.T.Gill's "Heads of the People". Artist's caption reads "Without reserve". Gill was one of the most prolific water-colour painters working in Australia in the nineteenth century. He was an artist who was often out in the field in the Adelaide Hills or the Flinders Ranges, and on the spot at mine sites, in city streets, at Port Adelaide, the races or at the Agricultural and Horticultural Society's annual show. He was part of Horrocks' expedition of 1846 to central Australia, where he offered a free service as official illustrator. In 1840, Gill established a studio in Adelaide and advertised for those desirous of obtaining correct likenesses of themselves, familiesor friends, animals, local scenery and residences, to contact him. He captured detailed scenes of colonial life in the streets of Adelaide and Melbourne, in the South Australian countryside and on the Victorian gold fields. Gill created a charicature folio of captioned portraits of well known Adelaideans named 'Heads of the people' which was later published (1850). Gill used techniques he acquired in England in his youth and developed during his years in Australia. The immediacy and freshness of the water-colour painting technique was ideally suited to the lively style of the artist. Although Gill mostly restricted himself to the water-colour sketch, perhaps due to its portable and convenient nature (apart from his 'Heads of the people' lithographic series), his work faithfully describes the vastness of the land and the energy of its people. Gill displayed qualities of imagination, delicacy, and poetic feeling but is often only known as the artist of the gold fields. |
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Related names : | Gill, S.T. (Samuel Thomas), 1818-1880 Horrocks, John Ainsworth, 1818-1846 Hailes, Nathaniel, 1802-1879 |
Coverage year : | 1850 |
Period : | 1836-1851 |
Place : | Adelaide |
Region : | Adelaide city |
Further reading : | Appleyard, Ron S.T. Gill, the South Australian years 1839-1852. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1986 Bernard, S Place, taste and tradition : a study of Australian art since 1788 Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1979 Bowden, Keith Macrae Samuel Thomas Gill: artist. [Collaroy, N.S.W.] : K.M. Bowden, [1971] Dutton, Geoffrey S.T. Gill's Australia. South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1981 Gill, S. T. Paintings of S.T. Gill Adelaide: Rigby, 1962 John Tregenza. 'S.T. Gill's Heads of the People', Bulletin of the Art Gallery of South Australia , vol. 35, 1977 |
Internet links : | Australian dictionary of biography online edition: ST Gill 'S.T. Gill opens a studio', South Australian register, 7 March 1840, p. 1, col. a 'Diary kept by S.T. Gill during Horrocks' Expedition', South Australian register, 10 October 1846, p. 4, col. a |