sketcher and solicitor, lent two works titled St Paul’s in the Southern Ocean to the 1849 exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Sydney. Both were catalogued as being 'sketched by C. Lowe on the spot, painted by C. Martens’. Lowe, a solicitor, had sketched the island of St Paul on his way to New South Wales in 1844. One of the views was described as 'showing the Interior of the Crater into which the Sea has flowed. Under shelter of the Rocks a few huts have been erected, and occupied by a party of English, French and Portuguese, eight in number, under the protection of the French flag. The loftiest point of the cliff is 700 feet perpendicular. The Basin is accessible only for small craft’. The other depicted 'the very singular and magnificent entrance, formed by the falling to sea-ward of the northern side of the vast Volcanic Crater’. Lowe paid Martens for making the watercolour versions of his drawings on 25 October 1847 and they were entered in Martens’s account book at 5 guineas each, 'Reduced for church’ to four according to Martens’s marginal note, both men being pillars of the Anglican Church in Sydney. In 1850 Lowe joined the Australian Artists’ Society, a short-lived mutual aid association. In 1855 he joined the new Sydney Sketching Club of which Martens was president.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
