The painting, worth more than $1 million, has gone on public display for the first time this week ahead of a reburial service for the explorer, the first man to circumnavigate Australia.
A previously unknown portrait of British navigator Matthew Flinders, thought to have been painted by one of the first European artists to work in Australia just years before the explorer’s death, has been discovered as part of an English family’s private estate.
No record of the rediscovered portrait, acquired by a fine art dealer from a family in England’s south-west eight years ago, previously existed. About 70cm tall and 50cm wide, the painting, under the name of, was later bought by British art collectors Mark and Wendy Winter as a canvas for a “modest sum” prior to the pandemic. They have undertaken painstaking research to identify subject and artist, and to have it restored.
“Westall was not a mapmaker or draughtsman,” he says. Westall was often criticised for using loose details or for creating his own interpretation when it came to maps or section drawings.
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