Karl Kahler b. 1855

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Karl Kahler was a painter and illustrator who completed a series of three Melbourne Cup paintings including 'Flemington Lawn on Cup Day' which was described by the Bulletin in 1889 as 'a veritable page in the history of Australia'.
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painter and illustrator.

Flemington Lawn on Cup Day , one of series of three Melbourne Cup paintings by Kahler engraved by Goupil, Paris, in 1887 and published with a key by Carl Pinschof at Melbourne in 1890. Described in the Bulletin of 19 January 1889 as 'a veritable page in the history of Australia’.

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1996
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2007

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References [<ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art', Melbourne, 2nd edn.>, <ExternalResource: 'Joan Kerr Archive', National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Benjamin, Alan.>, <ExternalResource: (1889), Bulletin, 01-19.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Mackay, Mary.>]