Water Colour Section, No. 1, National Art Gallery, Sydney, N.S.W.

New South Wales has one of the best water-colour collections in the world…[I]t represents most of the water-colour painters of the more modern British School…The two eastern colonies have committees of selection in London, and it is through these bodies the colonies have secured some of the most famous pictures which adorn their galleries…In the Sydney gallery…there are works from the French, the Belgian, the German, the Italian, the Spanish, the Austrian, the Bavarian and the Swedish schools…A bullock team on the Darling Downs is as worthy a thing to paint as an English wheatfield; Govett’s Leap lends itself to stately power as much as the Highlands of Scotland; and there are tints in the skies of the South, and colours on the shores of Australian seas, as full of beauty as any that ever rose before the eye of a master.

Gilbert Parker, Round the Compass in Australia, Hutchinson, London, 1892, pp.429-31, 437

Early in the twentieth Henry King was commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, (then known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales) to photograph its major works. The Powerhouse Museum Tyrrell Collection includes 1,334 photographs by Henry King.

Photography by Henry King. Tyrrell Collection
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