painter, exhibited View at Fryer’s Creek in 1852 (listed as a painting) and Road Making in Black Forest (1852, a sketch) in the Victorian section of the 1862 London International Exhibition. An undated watercolour of a horse and jockey by T.G. Taylor was sold at James R. Lawson’s auction rooms, Sydney, in December 1984. The painter is undoubtedly the 'G. Taylor’ whose pair of oil paintings, Road Making in the Black Forest near Mount Macedon, Victoria, N.S.W. [sic] , Morning and Evening , both dated 1853, were sold at Sotheby’s (London) in 1990. A tent advertising coffee in the right foreground of both is clearly labelled 'Diggers’ Rest / Refreshments & Stores / by Bill Smigs / VDL’, suggesting that they were done on commission for the owner.
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