LISTER LISTER, WILLIAM (1859-1943)

Name: LISTER LISTER, WILLIAM (1859-1943)
Price: 18500 AUD
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$18,500.00

"Ocean At Avalon" (c.1930)

Oil on canvas

49 x 69cm

Signed lower left

*exhibited at ‘Memorial Exhibition’ at Art Gallery Of NSW, 1946 (no.19)

*private collection, Sydney

Lister Lister was a prominent Australian Impressionist. Though born in Manly, Lister Lister was brought up in England, where was educated at Bedford School in the southern English Midlands. Lister left Bedford and completed his education at Pont Sainte-Maxence, north of Paris. While in France, Lister began sending works to art dealers in London and by the age of 17 the artist claimed to have exhibited three watercolours at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. After four years studying engineering and art in Glasgow, Lister spent two years working at sea, and by his mid twenties he had reached the position of Chief Engineer. By 1888 Lister had returned to the city of his birth, and begun sharing a studio with fellow artist Percy Spence. Soon after arriving in Sydney, Lister became an art teacher and one of his first pupils was the 13 year old Margaret McPherson (Margaret Preston). Lister was a great advocate of plein air painting. All his small works were begun and finished in situ, and many of his larger canvases completed in the open air. Soon after arriving in Sydney, Lister joined the Art Society of NSW then under the leadership of Julian Ashton. By 1889 he was a member of their Council and within six years was the vice-president. Lister was appointed as a lifetime trustee on the board of the then National Art Gallery of NSW in 1899. In 1898 the artist won the Wynne Prize for with a Hawkesbury River landscape subject, The Last Gleam. Lister went on to win the Wynne prize seven times.While Lister’s work is in several national collections, he did not actively exhibit interstate and is therefore little known outside the city of his birth. This impressive, panoramic seascape was exhibited at Anthony Hordern's Art Gallery in 1933, then at his "Memorial Exhibition" in 1946 (no.19) at the Art Gallery Of NSW, three years after being run over and killed by a taxi in Mosman.