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| As well, a number of paintings, apart from family portraits and paintings of Maroon and district, came down the family line and were reputed to be TLM-P's. They include the following:\\ | As well, a number of paintings, apart from family portraits and paintings of Maroon and district, came down the family line and were reputed to be TLM-P's. They include the following:\\ |
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| {{:turk_reclining_enhanced.jpg?300|}} ((Provenance: from G.S.M-P to T.A. M-P.))\\ | {{:turk_reclining_enhanced.jpg?300|}} {{:pilate_enhanced.jpg?300|}}((Provenance of both: from G.S.M-P to T.A. M-P.)) {{:tom_therese_s_madonna_and_child.jpeg?250|}}((Provenance: T.A. & M.T. M-P.)) {{:dscn3697.jpg?300|}}((Provenance: From G.S.M-P to J. Godden))\\ |
| The following is a black and white photo of the original.{{:parents_painting.jpg?300|}} {{:pilate_enhanced.jpg?300|}}((Provenance of both: ?H.A. Wiessner)) {{:dscn3697.jpg?300|}}((Provenance: From G.S.M-P to J. Godden))\\ | The following is a black and white photo of the original.{{:parents_painting.jpg?300|}} ((Provenance:?H.A. Wiessner)) \\ |
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| {{:cattle_enhanced.jpg?300|}} A damaged unframed painting of Hereford cattle.((Provenance: From G.S.M-P to T.A. M-P)) When TLM-P was in England he mentioned that he a painting by Thos Sidney Cooper that his father had bought was 'in the tin case for packing'. He showed it ed to Edmund Ashford, a former pupil of Cooper's who had watched it being created. It was not this one of herefords, as Ashford and TLM-P's step-sister Jemima agreed if was his best regarding 'the trees'. Yet the hereford painting is very like another of Coopers, of a bull's head:see [[https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Sidney+Cooper+painting&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCl9Ly8-neAhVUSX0KHWK2BVEQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=938#imgrc=A7g6hqw_cNPk0M:|Cooper painting]] Alternatively, it may be by TLM-P's brother William as TLM-P states that not only Edmund Ashford, but also William, 'was one of Cooper's pupils.((TLM-P, Diary, 9 August 1882, ML.)) \\ | {{:cattle_enhanced.jpg?300|}} A damaged unframed painting of Hereford cattle.((Provenance: From G.S.M-P to T.A. M-P)) When TLM-P was in England he wrote in his diary that he had one of his late father's paintings, by Thomas Sidney Cooper, 'in the tin case for packing'. He showed it to Edmund Ashford, a former pupil of Cooper's who had watched it being painted. Ashford and TLM-P's step-sister Jemima commented that the 'the trees' in the painting made it one of Cooper's best. So it could not be this one as it has no trees. Yet the comment provides a clue that it is also by Cooper, especially as it is very like one by him of a bull's head: see [[https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Sidney+Cooper+painting&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCl9Ly8-neAhVUSX0KHWK2BVEQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=938#imgrc=A7g6hqw_cNPk0M:|Cooper painting]]. Alternatively, it may be by TLM-P's brother William as he had also been taught painting by Cooper.((TLM-P, Diary, 9 August 1882, ML.)) \\ |
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| ==== Nora's or Thomas Lodge's? ==== | ==== Nora's or Thomas Lodge's? ==== |
| A much more problematic aspect of TLM-P's career is the connection between nineteenth century masculinity, the brutal takeover of aboriginal lands, and the colonial imperative to (as it was later put) 'populate or perish'. Nineteenth century Queensland was relatively isolated and sparsely populated by whites, so settlers like TLM-P idealised the land as 'vast uninhabited stretches of country waiting to be filled by resolute, hardworking Britons ... Progress - conceived in the masculinist framework of aggressive expansion, ruthless destruction of the Aboriginal people, economic development and environmental exploitation - needed not only capital, brawn and sheer determination to succeed, but healthy young citizens'.((Kay Saunders and Katie Spearritt, 'Is there life after birth? Childbirth, death and danger for settler women in colonial Queensland', //Journal of Australian Studies//, 29, June 1991, pp.64-79.)) | A much more problematic aspect of TLM-P's career is the connection between nineteenth century masculinity, the brutal takeover of aboriginal lands, and the colonial imperative to (as it was later put) 'populate or perish'. Nineteenth century Queensland was relatively isolated and sparsely populated by whites, so settlers like TLM-P idealised the land as 'vast uninhabited stretches of country waiting to be filled by resolute, hardworking Britons ... Progress - conceived in the masculinist framework of aggressive expansion, ruthless destruction of the Aboriginal people, economic development and environmental exploitation - needed not only capital, brawn and sheer determination to succeed, but healthy young citizens'.((Kay Saunders and Katie Spearritt, 'Is there life after birth? Childbirth, death and danger for settler women in colonial Queensland', //Journal of Australian Studies//, 29, June 1991, pp.64-79.)) |
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| Historian Angela Woollacott has argued, using TLM-P as a case study, that the concept of manhood in the colonies was intertwined with acceptance of frontier violence. She unquestioningly accepts Rosa Praed's version of events despite Rosa never quite making the transition from being a novelist to that of an accurate memoirist. She also attributes TLM-P's memoir of the Hornett Bank massacre to Rosa. Nevertheless, her argument, supported by other historians, is worth considering: that 'frontier violence was accepted within evolving definitions of manhood and hence political responsibility ... when we link frontier violence to gendered authority, mid-nineteenth century ideas of manhood might look a little less peaceable and restrained'.((Angela Woollacott, 'Frontier Violence and Settler Manhood', //History Australia//, 6:1, 2009, pp.11.1-11.15. See also, Angela Woollacott, 'Manly authority, employing non-white labour, and frontier violence 1830s-1860s', //Journal of Australian Colonial History//, Vol. 15, 2013, pp.23-42. [[https://search-informit-com-au.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/documentSummary;dn=617722819166722;res=IELAPA> ISSN: 1441-0370]])) | Historian Angela Woollacott has argued, using TLM-P as a case study, that the concept of manhood in the colonies was intertwined with acceptance of frontier violence. She unquestioningly accepts Rosa Praed's version of events despite Rosa never quite making the transition from being a novelist to that of an accurate memoirist. She also attributes TLM-P's memoir of the Hornet Bank massacre to Rosa. Nevertheless, her argument, supported by other historians, is worth considering: that 'frontier violence was accepted within evolving definitions of manhood and hence political responsibility ... when we link frontier violence to gendered authority, mid-nineteenth century ideas of manhood might look a little less peaceable and restrained'.((Angela Woollacott, 'Frontier Violence and Settler Manhood', //History Australia//, 6:1, 2009, pp.11.1-11.15. See also, Angela Woollacott, 'Manly authority, employing non-white labour, and frontier violence 1830s-1860s', //Journal of Australian Colonial History//, Vol. 15, 2013, pp.23-42. [[https://search-informit-com-au.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/documentSummary;dn=617722819166722;res=IELAPA> ISSN: 1441-0370]])) |
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| TLM-P was too complicated to be a satisfactory stock figure in any historical argument, though it would be possible to mount a case that his identification with royalty, insistence on a 'courtly' bearing and even his art collection that he bequeathed to the public, was at least partly motivated by a desire to assert himself as a civilised man, and to distance himself from his part in the grim reality of wrenching land from its traditional owners. | TLM-P was too complicated to be a satisfactory stock figure in any historical argument, though it would be possible to mount a case that his identification with royalty, insistence on a 'courtly' bearing and even his art collection that he bequeathed to the public, was at least partly motivated by a desire to assert himself as a civilised man, and to distance himself from his part in the grim reality of wrenching land from its traditional owners. |
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