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Thomas Dean, 1857-1947, Australia.
Thomas Dean was born in Worksop, Notts., U.K. in 1857. He migrated to Australia about 1876, and lived in the Sydney suburb of Kogarah for the major part of his life. Dean exhibited with the Art Society (Sydney), later the Royal Art Society from 1893 to 1940. He is represented in a folio of paintings presented to the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. A number of the paintinqs still retain the original hand carved frames with stylised decorative motive of waratahs. Dean died in Kogarah NSW in 1947. Contributed by Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.

 Top Five Sale Prices
Thomas Dean, On the Beach Manly, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1925 lower right, 45 x 75 cm, Price $****, Gregsons, Perth, 17/11/92
Thomas Dean, The Watering Hole, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 97 x 148 cm, Price $****, Gregson Flanagan, Perth, 14/10/96
Thomas Dean, Stockmen Rounding Up the Cattle, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1903 lower right, 86.5 x 195.5 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 23/08/92
Thomas Dean, To the Promised Land, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right: T. Dean 1907, 87.5 x 193.5 cm, Price $****, Lawson~Menzies, Sydney, 18/07/04
Thomas Dean, Cockatoos in the Cornfield, oil on canvas, signed 'T. Dean' 1918 lower right, 71 x 89 cm, Price $****, Bonhams & Goodman, Sydney, 26/04/05
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Medium Offered Sold
Paintings 167 98
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