Lot 242

Francis Edwards Ltd, London, 1928 (their exhibition 'Australasia, Old and New', cat. no. 614, as by von Guérard)
Maggs Brothers, London, from whom acquired by the following (according to Terence Lane's research)
Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne (their exhibition 'Australian Paintings', 1968, cat. no. 12, as 'artist unknown')
Private collection
Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne (their exhibition 'Views of Melbourne and Geelong', 26 February–7 March, 1980, cat. no. 12, as by von Guérard), from whom acquired by Terence Lane in May, 1980

National Gallery of Victoria, Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed, Melbourne, 16 April–7 August, 2011

C. Bruce, E. Comstock, & F. McDonald, Eugene von Guérard 1811–1901: A German Romantic in the Antipodes (1982), p. 284 (as 'whereabouts unknown')
R. Pullin, Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed, Melbourne (2011), pp 196–197

The present lot depicts part of 'Arundel', the 'model farm' set up by the journalist and co-owner of The Argus newspaper Edward Wilson (1813–1878) on Deep Creek (now called the Maribyrnong River at this point), north of Keilor on Melbourne's north-west outskirts (the site of the farm now being between the south-west side of Melbourne airport and the Calder Freeway).

Von Guérard visited 'Arundel' in March 1865 while staying at the still-extant 'Glenara' a short distance to the north, also on Deep Creek, in preparation for his famous view of that property, Mr Clark's Station, Deep Creek, near Keilor (National Gallery of Victoria, acc. no. A2-1986).