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Conrad Martens
England/Australia Painter , 1801-1878 Australian painter, lithographer and librarian of English birth. Son of a London merchant, he studied c. 1816 under Copley Fielding. His training was as a watercolourist and his most important works are watercolours, although he also produced paintings in oils. His early work displays the taste then current for the Picturesque. Francis Danby, David Cox and Turner were artists he admired. Martens left for India in 1832 or 1833 but at Montevideo joined Charles Darwin's expedition, replacing Augustus Earle as topographical draughtsman aboard the Beagle. The work strengthened his observation of detail and skill as a draughtsman. He left the expedition in October 1834 and, travelling via Tahiti and New Zealand, arrived in Sydney in April 1835. There he worked as a professional artist, in the 1840s and 1850s producing lithographic views of the Sydney area to augment his income. In 1863 he was appointed Parliamentary Librarian, which secured his finances. The skills he had acquired aboard the Beagle helped to gain him commissions to depict the estates around Sydney. However, his admiration for Turner, and with this the desire to elevate landscape as a subject, prompted him to subordinate line to mood in a Romantic treatment of the landscape. His thoughts were clearly stated in a lecture on landscape painting given in 1856 at the Australian Library, Sydney (see Smith, 1975).

 

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Conrad Martens Sydney Harbour Looking Towards the North End oil painting

Painting ID::  28003

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Conrad Martens
Sydney Harbour Looking Towards the North End
c 1836 Watercolour 44.5 x 63.5cm (17 1/2 x 25in) Private collection (mk63)
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens View from Sandy Bay oil painting

Painting ID::  32730

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Conrad Martens
View from Sandy Bay
mk80 1836 Watercolour 45x65.4cm
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens Sydney from the North Shore oil painting

Painting ID::  32731

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Conrad Martens
Sydney from the North Shore
mk80 1863 Watercolour,gouache and gum arabic over traces of pencil 44.9x64.4cm
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens Cloud study oil painting

Painting ID::  33099

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Conrad Martens
Cloud study
mk82 c.1850
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens Cloud study oil painting

Painting ID::  33100

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Conrad Martens
Cloud study
mk82 c.1850
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens Cloud Study oil painting

Painting ID::  33192

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Conrad Martens
Cloud Study
mk82 c.1850 watercolour 16.2x23.7
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens Coastal Scene near Exmouth oil painting

Painting ID::  42096

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Conrad Martens
Coastal Scene near Exmouth
mk167 1829 Watercolor
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens Rio Santa Cruz oil painting

Painting ID::  42097

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Conrad Martens
Rio Santa Cruz
mk167 Watercolour
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens Australian Landscape with cattle and a stockman at a creek oil painting

Painting ID::  42098

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Conrad Martens
Australian Landscape with cattle and a stockman at a creek
mk167 1839 oil
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens Aboriginal camp site oil painting

Painting ID::  42099

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Conrad Martens
Aboriginal camp site
mk167 c.1840 Watercolor
   
   
     

 

 

Conrad Martens View of Sydney from St Leonards oil painting

Painting ID::  42100

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Conrad Martens
View of Sydney from St Leonards
mk167 1842 Lithograph hand-coloured
   
   
     

 

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Conrad Martens
England/Australia Painter , 1801-1878 Australian painter, lithographer and librarian of English birth. Son of a London merchant, he studied c. 1816 under Copley Fielding. His training was as a watercolourist and his most important works are watercolours, although he also produced paintings in oils. His early work displays the taste then current for the Picturesque. Francis Danby, David Cox and Turner were artists he admired. Martens left for India in 1832 or 1833 but at Montevideo joined Charles Darwin's expedition, replacing Augustus Earle as topographical draughtsman aboard the Beagle. The work strengthened his observation of detail and skill as a draughtsman. He left the expedition in October 1834 and, travelling via Tahiti and New Zealand, arrived in Sydney in April 1835. There he worked as a professional artist, in the 1840s and 1850s producing lithographic views of the Sydney area to augment his income. In 1863 he was appointed Parliamentary Librarian, which secured his finances. The skills he had acquired aboard the Beagle helped to gain him commissions to depict the estates around Sydney. However, his admiration for Turner, and with this the desire to elevate landscape as a subject, prompted him to subordinate line to mood in a Romantic treatment of the landscape. His thoughts were clearly stated in a lecture on landscape painting given in 1856 at the Australian Library, Sydney (see Smith, 1975).