Live Auction 4826Travel, Science and Natural History
Samuel Robert Lock (1822-1881)
Lot 176

Samuel Robert Lock (1822-1881)

Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. Australia

Closed25 April 2012

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GBP 10,625

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Samuel Robert Lock (1822-1881)
Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. Australia
signed and inscribed as titled 'Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. Australia SR Lock.' on the reverse
watercolour with scratching out
unframed
5¼ x 7in. (13.4 x 18.5cm.)
together with an unframed watercolour 'Lake Lovell (one of) Kemp's Lakes on the top of the "western Tier" V D Land' probably by the same hand (2)

Conway Mordaunt Shipley, R.N. (1824-1888), and thence by descent to the present owners (the two watercolours extracted from a scrapbook compliled by Shipley).

Specialist note

Lock was a London-born self-taught miniature painted who travelled to Australia in 1837 where he was employed as an artist in the Government Survey Office, and is known to have visited Tasmania and the Pacific. He worked as a photographic painter on his return to England, later opened a studio for miniature painting on Regent Street, converting Talbotypes into miniatures.