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LAURAINE DIGGINS FINE ART

WALTER WITHERS 1854 – 1914
(Figure on the Beach) c.1890s
oil on wooden panel
15 x 22.5 cm
signed lower right: Walter Withers
label verso: The Fine Art Department, Cole’s Book Arcade

Provenance:
private collection, c.1956

$35,000

Withers painted regularly with the Heidelberg artists and often painted along the bayside beaches around Melbourne. In September 1890 he took over the south end of the Heidelberg mansion ‘Chartersville’. In 1893, he moved to Creswick where he held plein air painting classes where Percy and Lionel Lindsay were among his most promising pupils. He built his home and studio in Eltham in 1903 where he lived until his death in 1914. Withers was elected president of the Victorian Artists’ Society and was a founding member of the Australian Art Association in 1912 and trustee of the Gallery 1912 – 14. In 1897 and 1900 he received the Wynne Prize for landscape painting. Throughout his life, Withers remained an active and significant participant in Melbourne’s professional art life.
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