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David Davies

DAVID DAVIES
EVENING TEMPLESTOWE, 1897

DAVID DAVIES
Born Australia 1864, Died Great Britain 1939

EVENING TEMPLESTOWE, 1897
oil on canvas, 43.4 x 54.4 cm
Purchased with the assistance of a special grant
from the Government of Victoria, 1979
Collection: National Gallery of Victoria

This was one of the last works David Davies produced of Templestowe, and was painted not long before his departure for Europe in 1897.

The work captures a tranquil rural twilight scene on one of the many dairy farms situated in Templestowe on the river flats beside the Yarra River. The cattle in the work are shown leaving a dairy after their evening milking and slowly making their way along a well-worn path back to their paddocks.

David Davies painted a small oil on panel study for this work in 1897, which is now in the collection of the Australian National Gallery, Canberra.

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Left: Arthur Streeton - Above Us The Great Grave Sky, 1890
Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.