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SCHELTEMA, Jan Hendrik (1861 – 1941)
Street scene, Tunis, c. 1899
Oil on canvasboard, 37 x 25.5 cm, signed lower right J. H. Scheltema, a fainter signature of the same just underneath, title Tunis lower right, original gilt frame.
In 1898, the Dutch born Australian landscape painter Scheltema travelled home to Holland, returning home via Tunis where he made a series of works featuring local subjects, subsequently exhibited in Melbourne.
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