Percy Fred. Seaton Spence

Percy Frederick Seaton Spence Australian1868 - 1933 Maori Girl in the Bay ofIslands & Maori Man Playing the Putorino - A Pair Gouache on paper 47.0 x 30.5 Signed & dated 1923 more info... Provenance: Private Collection, London New South Wales born Spence became an illustrator for the SydneyDaily Telegraph, Illustrated Sydney News and The Bulletin, he alsoexhibited at London's Royal Art Society. His illustrations appearedin prominent publications such as Punch, Black & White, Graphicand Britain's Austral Empire. A Royal Academy exhibitor, Spence's work is also hung in thecollections of National Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery,London and Mitchell Library, Sydney, University of Sydney &Australia's High Court. A work titled H M Australian Fleet arrivingat Sydney Heads and a portrait Rear-Admiral George Patey are in theBuckingham Palace Collection, London.

LOT 56 PERCY SPENCE AUSTRALIAN, 1868-1933 BY THE SEASHORE 6,000—8,000 AUD Signed and dated Percy F. S. Spence / Mar 1912 (lower right); bears title and date on label on reverse Oil on canvas on composition board PROVENANCE Tom Silver Gallery, Melbourne Purchased from the above in 1980

Percy Frederick Seaton Spence (Australian, 1868-1933)
Coo-ee; The Pioneer, a pair
one signed 'Percy Spence' and dated '25 July 1931' l.l.; the other signed 'Percy Spence' l.l.
watercolour and bodycolour
23.5 x 50.8 cm. (25 x 20 in.); 61 x 48.3 cm. (24 x 19 in.)(2)

Additional Notes:
Born in Sydney and raised in Fiji, Spence worked as an illustrator and portraitist in Sydney and London.