FEBRUARY ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 27 February 2018 - 9:00 AM start

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Thomas Cane (UK / NZ 1830-1905)

Realised: $250 plus premium

Lot Details

'Fish Market Bruges' 1886 and 'West Front-Church of St. Peter - Caen', 1891 each signed, dated and entitled. 305 x 410 and 380 x 255. Cane who trained as an architect in England under the Gothic Revivalist, Sir George Gilbert Scott immigrated to New Zealand in 1874 and was appointed Canterbury Provincial Architect, he is renowned for designing the neo-Gothic Lyttelton Timeball Station. He developed his skill as a watercolourist alongside his architectural training and is known for his studies of medieval European architecture, a subject he revisited in his later career. Provenance: Sir Robert Anderson (1866-1942), by bequest and descent to our vendor. Sir Robert was the benefactor who gifted the Anderson House and Park to the City of Invercargill to become the Invercargill Public Art Gallery. c.f. http://www.invercargillpublicartgallery.nz/the-house/ See other image