Valentine Delawarr b. 1852 England, UK

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Also known as:
  • Valentin Delawarr
  • Val Delawarr
  • V. Delawarr
  • W. Delawarr
  • Artist (Painter)
Late Victorian to Federation era landscape painter who worked in Sydney, Perth, Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand.
Talk | Version history | Updated Dec. 4, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 2006
Name
Valentine Delawarr
Also known as:
  • Valentin Delawarr
  • Val Delawarr
  • V. Delawarr
  • W. Delawarr
Birth date
c.1 October 1852
Birth place
England, UK
Birth note
Birth information found in the 1911 Census of Canada
Death date
30 June 1918
Death place
Keswick, Ontario, Canada
Burial place
Ontario, Canada
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1899- c.1900 Perth, WA
  • c.1899 Milford Sound, Otago (Fiordland), NZ
  • c.1892- c.1893 Waltham Buildings, Bond Street, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1890- c.1892 Hunter Street, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1888- c.1899 Sydney, NSW
  • c.1904- 1918 Ontario, Canada (Immigrated to Canada in 1904 according to the 1911 Census of Canada)
Active Period
  • c.1880- c.1900
Cultural Heritage
  • Speculatively Belgian, French or Anglo-Huguenot
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No

landscape painter, worked in New South Wales, Tasmania, New Zealand and Western Australia between the 1880s and 1900s. In the early 1890s Delawarr moved into a studio at 112 Hunter Street, Sydney, after a studio in the same building had been vacated by landscape and portrait painter Gladstone Eyre , whose landscape paintings resemble Delawarr’s, in both style and subject matter. Later, Delawarr was working in the 24 Bond Street building where cartoonist Livingston “Hop” Hopkins (and, much later, photographer Max Dupain ) also had a studio.

Some references speculate that Delawarr was Dutch, however, the Dutch influence in his work is likely to have come through Gladstone Eyre’s teacher, Henry van den Houten . Delawarr’s name suggests Belgian, French or Anglo-Huguenot origins.

Writers:
Riddler, Eric
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Gladstone Eyre
1862
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Livingston Hopkins
1846
Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Max Dupain
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Henry Henricus Leonardus van den Houten
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Collections
Citations:
  • (1992), 'Houten, Henricus (Henry) Leonardus van den', (Place: Melbourne, Vic : OUP; in Kerr, Joan (ed), Heritage, pp 374-5)
  • Buscombe, Eve, (1978), Artists in early Australia and their portraits : a guide to the portrait painters of early Australia with special reference to colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land to 1850, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Eureka)
  • Australian art sales digest (various volumes), (Place: Armadale, Vic : Acorn Media (et al))
  • Craig, Edward D. (et al), Australian Art Auction Records (various volumes), (Place: Sydney, NSW : Currawong (et al))
  • McCulloch, Alan; and McCulloch, Susan, (1994), Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (Place: St Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin)
  • Sands' Sydney and suburban directory (various volumes), (Place: Sydney, NSW : John Sands)
  • Chapman, Barbara, (1979), The colonial eye : a topographical and artistic record of the life and landscape of Western Australia, 1798-1914, (Place: Perth, WA : Art Gallery of Western Australia)