Tom
ROBERTS
England
1856
–
Kallista
1931 AD
Australia from 1869; England, Europe 1881- 85, 1903-23
25.1 (h) x 19.0 (w) cm
signed and dated u.l., incised 'Tom Roberts / Sept 24th 1889' inscribed l.c., incised 'Caliph'
Reference: 154 Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Victoria Purchased with the assistance of the Caltex-Victorian Government Art Fund and Public Appeal, 1979
Alexander Anderson Senior was the owner of Brocklesby station, a property that initially included part of the township of Corowa. Roberts captured his flourishing business in his iconic Shearing the rams, with shearers the central focus of that work. Roberts first visited Brocklesby in 1886 after Anderson’s daughter Janie married one of Roberts’ cousins.
