painter and settler, was living at Witton Park, Bringelly, NSW, when he exhibited an oil painting depicting a Fruit and Game-Stall at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition, proclaiming in the catalogue that it was “the work of a self-taught Artist”. That this was undoubtedly Liddington himself was proved when he showed the same work, for sale at £45, at the 1870 Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition in the amateur painting section, together with Bandicoot (5 guineas) and Basket of Peaches and Apples (8 guineas). A number of paintings in this exhibition were disqualified for being copies, or for not being by the person exhibiting them, but Liddington’s Fruit and Game Stall won a commendation. Arthur J. Liddington died at Penrith in 1896.
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