Henry J. Recknall b. Melbourne, Vic.

  • Artist (Painter)
Henry J. Recknall was one of the group of artists that included Lionel and Norman Lindsay, Will Dyson and Max Meldrum who lived and painted at Charterisville near Heidelberg in Victoria in the late 1890s.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Henry J. Recknall
Birth date
Birth place
Melbourne, Vic.
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1897- c.1898 Charterisville, Eaglemont, Melbourne, Vic.
Active Period
  • c.1893- c.1897
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

painter, Melbourne, was one of the group of artists who lived and painted at Charterisville during its second phase. Other artists living there then (c.1897) included Lionel and Norman Lindsay , Will Dyson and Max Meldrum.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Lionel Lindsay
1874
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Norman Lindsay
1879
Artist
associate of
Will Dyson
1880
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Max Meldrum
1875
Artist (Painter)
Track to the Clearing, Box Hill, Vic.
No date; oil on canvas.
Citations:
  • (1996), Australian and European Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints, Part II, (Catalogue entry of Recknall's painting, Lot 350: "Track to the Clearing, Box Hill, Victoria" n.d., oil on canvas. Not illustrated. Place: Christie's Catalogue, Melbourne, Vic, [30 April 1996, cat.350, p.28])