| Title: |
Charles Conder, Stella Maris Condor and Florence Humphrey at les Petites Dalles, Normandy |
| Creator: |
H. W. BARNETT
Birth Date: 1862
Death Date: 1934
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| Date Created: |
1902 |
| Collection Area: |
Photography |
| Medium: |
platinum photograph |
| Subject: |
Stella M. CONDER
Charles CONDER
Florence HUMPRHEY
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| Extended Wall Label: |
Charles Conder (1868-1909), painter, left London at 15 to work on the NSW gold fields, and took up painting in Sydney. In 1888 he began painting with Tom Roberts, and later that year he moved to Melbourne. Conder, Roberts, and Arthur Streeton frequently painted together on the outskirts of Melbourne, forming the principal trio of the group of impressionist landscape artists known as the 'Heidelberg School'. In 1890 Conder went to study in Paris, where he moved in bohemian circles, coming under the influence of Toulouse-Lautrec. He married the socialite and widow Stella Maris Belford (d. 1912) in Paris in 1901. Their London home was famous for its parties.
Walter Barnett was Australia's first world-class portrait photographer. After establishing a reputation in Australia for his studio photography, Barnett went to London in 1899 and became a leading society photographer. In England he maintained the close friendships he had established with Australian artists and formed new relationships with British and French writers, musicians and artists, many of whom sat for him. Barnett took this informal pose in Normandy in 1903. Stella Maris's aunt, Mrs Florence Humphrey, was a long-time friend of the English painter Sickert and of the Barnetts.
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| Dimensions: |
Type: Sheet
Height: 13.8
Width: 24.5
Type: Image
Height: 13.5
Width: 24.0
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| Accession No: |
2001.167 |
| Attribution: |
Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Purchased 2001 |
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