Framed portrait of George Maxwell who was President of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind 1920-1935. It is part of a series of paintings commissioned by the AFB Board to commemorate the work of past presidents of the organisation. Mr Maxwell is turned slightly away from the viewer, and wears a blue suit, white high collared shirt and a blue tie. George Maxwell was President of Vision Australia from 1920 to 1935. After an early teaching career he studied law, was admitted to the Bar and became one of Victoria’s great criminal lawyers and later a Federal Member of Parliament. He took an interest the welfare of blind people from his student days. A detached retina in 1920 led to total blindness nine years later, which gave him a great empathy for those with a similar affliction. Through his contacts he was also instrumental in obtaining the first voting rights for blind Australians. Up until 1902 blind people were unable to vote if they couldn’t write with a pen. George Maxwell was working at that time at the legal firm of Strongman and Crouch one of the partners, Mr. Crouch, was elected as a member of Parliament. When the Commonwealth Electoral Bill was being drafted, Mr. Crouch has a clause added enabling blind people to vote in Federal elections, constituting a world first. But perhaps his greatest achievement was obtaining the pension for legally blind people. Until 1910 only those who met the age and means test criteria were eligible. With the help of his legal and political friends a bill was passed which granted the pension to all persons over 16 years of age who were unable to work due to physical disability or blindness. Until this time these people had to be supported by their families or go to a benevolent institution. This was a world first and gave to blind and vision impaired people a measure of independence which increased both their self reliance and self esteem. 1 art original in gold/brown frameThe plaque at the base of the painting reads 'Honourable George A Maxwell Q.C. / President 1920-1935 / Association for Advancement of the Blind'.association for the advancement of the blind, george maxwell

Born in 1903, Norman Penrose studied at the Bendigo School of Mines. A painter and a teacher, he lived in Bendigo most of his life.Watercolour painting by Norman Penrose titled "Sand Pit Fortuna." It shows a mining sand pit and the Fortuna mine in the background. The painting is signed on the bottom right-hand side. The painting is under glass in a dark brown wooden frame. On the back: Penrose Norman William 14 Barkly Terrace east Bendigo. Price: - guineas. Title: Sand Pit Fortuna. For: drawing, watercolour and graphic art exhibition. Victorian Artista Society 430 Albert Street, East Melbourne bendigo, mining, norman penrose, artist, teacher, fortuna

Coloured photograph of floral arrangement paintingSECOND PRIZE Awarded to - Mrs D M Holloway Signed by Mayor - A G Lavis. President of Horticultural Society - J Kirby. Town Clerk - Alfred Kelly. Date - 23rd March 1957 Organised by the Ringwood Horticultural and Agricultural Society

Coloured photograph of floral arrangement paintingSECOND PRIZE Awarded to - Mrs D M Holloway Signed by Mayor - A G Lavis. President of Horticultural Society - J Kirby. Town Clerk - Alfred Kelly. Date - 23rd March 1957 Organised by the Ringwood Horticultural and Agricultural Society

Coloured photograph of floral arrangement paintingFIRST PRIZE Awarded to Mrs M Holloway Signed by : Mayor - P Vergers, Town Clerk - Alfred Kelly Date 22nd March 1958 Organised by the Ringwood Horticultural and Agricultural Society

Painted by Sylvia Jones 1960s from a photograph of Lower Plenty Hotel taken 1940s.Oil on canvas painting, framed and glazedlower plenty hotel, sylvia jones

Artist Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, painted this while at Graytown Prisoner of War Camp.Watercolour painting of farmhouse and surrounding treesgraytown pow camp, georg rosenkranz, illustrations, watercolour

Artist Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, painted this while at Graytown Prisoner of War Camp.Stylised watercolour painting of a Kormoran crewman.GRhsk kormoran, prisoner of war camps, illustrations, watercolour, graytown pow camp, rosenkranz, crewman

Artist Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, painted this while at Graytown POW CampStylised watercolour painting of Graytown paymasterOur Paymastergraytown pow camp, georg rosenkranz, hsk kormoran, illustrations, watercolour

Artsit Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, painted this while at Graytown POW CampStylised watercolour painting of the Graytown mill.In the Saw Mill at Graytowngraytown pow camp, georg rosenkranz, hsk kormoran, illustrations, watercolour

Plate Showing painting of Town Hallstawell

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Prize Grand Winner 1999.A realistic watercolour painting of white camelias.Obverse: Eve Laing/ (beside an oriental stamp in the bottom right corner) 1999 GRAND WINNER/ CAMELLIAS/ By EVE LAING/ Judge WYKEHAM PERRY/ (plaque on mounting board)wangaratta art gallery, eve laing, camelias, flower, painting, watercolour

A Man painting the new Concrete Bridge.bridges, campbells bridge

Painting - lake scene with mountain in background.Canvas - prepared by Windsor and newton 98 Rathbone Place London.illustrations, oil

Framed abstract painting by Catherine Chapmansigned lower right "Catherine Chapman"painting, abstract, catherine chapman

The Cutty Sark was launched on 22 November 1869. She was named by the wife of George Moodie, the ship's first master who had also supervised her construction. Cutty Sark left the Clyde on 13 January 1870. A month and two days later, she set sail from London for China. Cutty sark was designed and built by Scott & Linton of Dumbarton for 16,150 pounds. But much of the money was to be paid by Willis when the ship was launched. Just before they finished her, Scott & Linton ran out of money and went bankrupt. She was completed by William Denny & Brothers. The Cutty Sark was the first ship to reach London with a tea cargo in 1877. But she was one of only nine sailing ships that returned that year - in 1870 there had been 59. Steamships were now dominating the tea trade. In 1883 the Cutty Sark joined the booming trade in transporting Australian wool. Every year until 1895 she set out in the summer for Australia, to load a cargo of wool bales and return to England in time for the wool sales ini the first three months of the new year. Cutty Sark soon established herself as the fastest of the wool clippers. Under her last master, Richard Woodget she set record times of 70 days or less for the voyage which no other sailing ships could match.Painting of a ship called the Cutty Sark.cutty sark, exhibition, wool, australia, china, sailing, ship, woodget, moodie, london, willis dumbarton, scott & linton, william denny, tea, cargo, immigration, trade, chinese

Reproduction of a painting, scene of Australian landscape

Framed Japanese painting (reproduction) in box

Landscape painting, reproduction, Australian scene

Queenscliff’s first pier, then known as the Fishermen’s Pier, was completed in 1857. It was not until some thirty years later that the second Steamer Pier was constructed adjacent to the former and periodically extended from the mid to late 1880s to cope with the demand in pleasure bay steamer services. The last of these extensions was to provide a dog-leg construction and the extant shelter shed. 1960 witnessed the demolition of the original Fishermen’s Pier - by this time having been extended in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the equivalent length of the Steamer Pier - and saw the relocation of its 1926-29 lifeboat house to the Steamer Pier, now Queenscliff Pier. The mid to late 2000s saw Queenscliff Harbour undergo large-scale redevelopment in order to deepen its waters for pleasure craft and increase its berths to over 300. This was met with strong community opposition, largely with concerns for neighbourhood character and perceived cause for gentrification its stakeholders would impart. With early construction estimates of $20 million dollars, this figure had almost doubled upon realisation. (Lovell Chen Architects. ‘Individual Property Citation’, Queenscliffe Heritage Study, 2009.) (Freya Mitchell, ‘Queenscliff residents fight a tide of development sweeping the historic town’ ABC radio, 15 April 2005).Fishermen's Pier Watercolour painting of Fishermen's Pier in Queenscliffwatercolour, fishermen's pier, queenscliff

Arthur V Gregory b.1867, d.1957 worked from studio at 326 Albert Road South Melbourne established by his father G F Gregory in 1852Water colour painting in wooden frameThe Lord Warden passing Cape Otway 1870 A.V. Gregory-17-lord warden, a.v. gregory, water colour

A painting of a bush scene on a piece of tin.artwork, water colour, landscape, lydia chancellor, collection, art work, tin, painting, artwork, art, bush scene, landscape

She was among many Allied merchant ships who escaped to Britain rather than be interned in occupied countries in World War II. Together with Holland America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam she served in the Allied cause. She was then chartered to the British Ministry of War Transport and put into service. Under the terms of the charter the flag and crew would remain Dutch. Volendam was assigned to the Children's Overseas Reception Board, a British Government scheme introduced in 1940 to evacuate UK school children overseas. She sailed from Liverpool on Thursday 29 August 1940 as one of 33 ships in Convoy OB 205. On 30 August 1940 whilst several hundred miles off Malin Head, Northern Ireland and heading into the Atlantic, she was attacked about 2300 hrs by the German submarine U-60, firing two torpedoes that hit No. 1 hold and damaged and caused flooding in No. 2 hold. Captain Wepster then gave the order to abandon ship, and despite rough seas all 18 lifeboats got away safely.In 1947 she was used in the Australia emigrant service and in June 1948 made her first Rotterdam – Quebec sailing for the Netherlands government with capacity for 1,500 single class passengers. On Tuesday October 17, 1950 she departed Rotterdam for Sydney, arriving 6-weeks and 1 day later at her destination on Wednesday November 29, 1950. She brought with her a ship-load of (mainly Dutch) immigrants, all eager to forge new lives in Australia. In September 1948 she started her first Rotterdam – New York sailing and commenced her last voyage on this route in February 1951.A framed oil painting of the MV Volenda,Volendammv volendam, migrant ships, troop ships, u boat attack

Beltana was launched in 1921 at a cost of £179,000. She was a passenger liner built specifically for the UK-Australia emigrant service via the Cape of Good Hope. In October 1917, she was requisitioned for Transatlantic service where she carried munitions and supplies, returning to emigrant service in 1919. On 31 March 1930 she was sold for £27,000 to Toyo Hogei Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan for conversion for the whaling trade. She was not renamed, being laid up in Japan. She never traded under the Japanese flag. In 1933 she was sold to Gentaro Kasegawa, Kobe for demolition. Mrs B SmythFramed oil painting of the ship BeltanaBeltanass beltana, transatlantic supply transport, wwi, migrant ship

Local SceneOil on Canvas, painting of an old house