R. S. Kelly

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Watercolourist who worked as a draughtsman in Melbourne and then Darwin. Kelly also lived in Dunedin, New Zealand where he produced numerous watercolours of the local landscape.
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watercolourist and draughtsman, was employed as a temporary draughtsman in the Victorian Public Works Department at Melbourne from August 1855 until dismissed on 31 December 1861 as part of general government reductions. His Bridge over the Yarra Yarra at Studley Park 1858 (Maunsell & Partners Pty Ltd), a precisely detailed watercolour drawing of a wooden bridge in a generalised, conventional setting, looks like a commissioned perspective drawing, which perhaps it was, the Studley Park bridge having been erected that year by a private company. Kelly was in New Zealand by 1862, the date on several watercolours of Dunedin (Hocken Library). Some of his New Zealand views were reproduced in McIntock’s The History of Otago . By 1866 he was working as a draughtsman in the Government Survey Office at Palmerston (Darwin, NT).

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1992
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2011

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References [<ExternalResource: (1866), 'Wood's Point and Gippsland Directory'.>, <ExternalResource: Downer, C. & Phipps, J. (1985), 'Victorian Vision - 1834 Onwards', Exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Tibbits, G., 'Directory of Victorian architects', Manuscript, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.>] [<ExternalResource: (1866), 'Wood's Point and Gippsland Directory'.>]