• Title
  [Bayard, Wolseley Road, Point Piper, ca 1900] / watercolour by John Campbell
• Creator
  John Campbell, 1855-1924
• Call number
  XV/202
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca 1900
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9611609
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 54 x 82.5 cm. - watercolour on paper
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Campbell (1855-1924) was a scenic painter who migrated to Australia from Scotland in early 1880s, working in NSW and QLD before later moving to W.A; very little is known about Campbell's education, his training or his life in Scotland. By 1895, he is recorded as working in Sydney and it is thought Campbell may have lived in Parramatta whilst working in New South Wales. By the early 1900s he had settled in Perth.
• Collection history
  Private collection. Rushton Fine Arts Sydney, July 1987.
• Scope and Content
  The house depicted in this detailed architectural study shows a property sited on the eastern foreshore of Sydney Harbour, which has been identified as the private residence known as ‘Bayard’, 116 Wolseley Road, Point Piper.
  
  The house is built in the elaborate Italianate Renaissance-revival style of the late Victorian era, with red and white banded brickwork, double storied bay windows and a central turret with a windvane. It sits perched atop a steep rock face that descends, through terraced walks and balustraded stairs to the water’s edge, where there is a landing place and a boatshed. The finely detailed depiction presents Campbell’s typical attention to the smallest of details (note the venetian blinds in the windows) documenting the lay of the land as observed from a low vantage point, possibly a boat moored off shore.
  
  This work is a pictorial memorial to ‘Bayard’ as it was built, and offers a stark contrast to the property as it appears today; a surviving photograph taken in about 1910 shows the property with its terracing sans ornamental urns and statuary, and already been bricked in – the extant turret is almost the only original architectural feature visible today.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'JOHN CA' lower right
• Date note
  
  No date. Date based on John Campbell's move to Perth and photograph dated ca 1910 held at PXE 711/68.
• Subject
  Architecture, Domestic--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Art, Australian.
  
• Topic
  mansions
  
• Place
  Bayard (116 Wolseley Road, Point Piper, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19969005

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