DELAWARR, VALENTINE (1852-1918)
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“Mountainscape, South Island, NZ” (c.1880)
oil on board
cm
Signed lower right
Delawarr is a forgotten Belgian-born Australian landscape painter. He worked in New South Wales, Tasmania, New Zealand and Western Australia in the 1880s and 1900s. In the early 1890s Delawarr moved into a studio at 112 Hunter Street, Sydney, after a studio in the same building had been vacated by landscape and portrait painter Gladstone Eyre , whose landscape paintings resemble Delawarr’s in both style and subject matter. Later, Delawarr was working in the 24 Bond Street building where cartoonist Livingston“Hop” Hopkins (and, much later, photographer Max Dupain ) also had a studio. Delawarr’s name suggests Belgian, French or Anglo-Huguenot origins.