Las óleos de todo Conrad Martens


Choice ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
42099 Aboriginal camp site  Aboriginal camp site   mk167 c.1840 Watercolor
42098 Australian Landscape with cattle and a stockman at a creek  Australian Landscape with cattle and a stockman at a creek   mk167 1839 oil
33099 Cloud study  Cloud study   mk82 c.1850
33100 Cloud study  Cloud study   mk82 c.1850
33192 Cloud Study  Cloud Study   mk82 c.1850 watercolour 16.2x23.7
42096 Coastal Scene near Exmouth  Coastal Scene near Exmouth   mk167 1829 Watercolor
42097 Rio Santa Cruz  Rio Santa Cruz   mk167 Watercolour
32731 Sydney from the North Shore  Sydney from the North Shore   mk80 1863 Watercolour,gouache and gum arabic over traces of pencil 44.9x64.4cm
28003 Sydney Harbour Looking Towards the North End  Sydney Harbour Looking Towards the North End   c 1836 Watercolour 44.5 x 63.5cm (17 1/2 x 25in) Private collection (mk63)
32730 View from Sandy Bay  View from Sandy Bay   mk80 1836 Watercolour 45x65.4cm
42100 View of Sydney from St Leonards  View of Sydney from St Leonards   mk167 1842 Lithograph hand-coloured

Conrad Martens
England/Australia Painter , 1801-1878 Australian painter, lithographer and librarian of English birth. Son of a London merchant, he studied c. 1816 under Copley Fielding. His training was as a watercolourist and his most important works are watercolours, although he also produced paintings in oils. His early work displays the taste then current for the Picturesque. Francis Danby, David Cox and Turner were artists he admired. Martens left for India in 1832 or 1833 but at Montevideo joined Charles Darwin's expedition, replacing Augustus Earle as topographical draughtsman aboard the Beagle. The work strengthened his observation of detail and skill as a draughtsman. He left the expedition in October 1834 and, travelling via Tahiti and New Zealand, arrived in Sydney in April 1835. There he worked as a professional artist, in the 1840s and 1850s producing lithographic views of the Sydney area to augment his income. In 1863 he was appointed Parliamentary Librarian, which secured his finances. The skills he had acquired aboard the Beagle helped to gain him commissions to depict the estates around Sydney. However, his admiration for Turner, and with this the desire to elevate landscape as a subject, prompted him to subordinate line to mood in a Romantic treatment of the landscape. His thoughts were clearly stated in a lecture on landscape painting given in 1856 at the Australian Library, Sydney (see Smith, 1975).



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