George Finey, ca. 1926? / J.S. Watkins

DG 470

fonds

1926?

Graphic Materials, Paintings

862948

Copy print : DG 470
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

1 painting - visible image 90.4 x 75 cm, in frame 101.5 x 86 cm - oil

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales

Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

'J.S. Watkins' and '56 Margaret St' inscribed on reverse of stretcher, lower edge. Exhibitionlabel on reverse of stretcher, upper edge, is inscribed 'Portrait of George Finey by J.S. Watkins. Loaned by Mrs J.S. Watkins. 250 Guineas'.

Wooden frame, part gilded.

A portrait of Finey by Watkins was selected as a finalist for the 1926 Archibald prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Reproduced in Royal Art Society of New South Wales, Illustrated catalogue.
Daily Telegraph Sunday Pictorial, 7 Aug., 1927.
Leonard Joel, Paintings, April 1927 [catalogue], Armadale, Vic., 1987.

Signed 'J.S. Watkins' in red brushpoint, lower right.

Undated; approximately dated and titled from catalogue entry in Royal Art Society of New South Wales (Reference: Illustrated catalogue of the forty-eighth annual exhibition...Sydney, 1927) and from possible selection in the 1926 Archibald finalist's list.