Charles Turner Australia, ?-1893
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About Charles Turner
A late colonial painter, illuminator and illustrator working c1870-1901, Charles Turner contributed drawings to the Australian Graphic , e.g. The Springs, Mount Wellington, Tasmania’, 23 February 1884. He illustrated Garnet Walsh’s Victoria in 1880publishe din 1880 with many text engravings and 11 full-page engravings, many of the Melbourne International Exhibition. He exhibited at the Victorian Academy of Arts between 1870 and 1882 and at the Art Society of NSW.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Charles Turner from 1967 and in total 34 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 24 (71%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,750 for On the Esk River, The Gorge, Launceston, Tasmania sold by Leonard Joel in November 1983. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Charles Turner are held by the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia and a further six major public national galleries (see list below).
Charles Turner is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
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