painter, showed an oil, Portrait of the Native Bred Horse, The Doctor , at the 1854 Melbourne Exhibition. His address was given in the catalogue as Easey Street, Collingwood. In 1856 (listed as 'T.’ Emery) he exhibited a group of horse paintings at Joseph Wilkie’s music shop in Melbourne. He continued to paint throughout the 1850s, contributing works to exhibitions held by the Victorian Society of Fine Arts in 1857 and the Victorian Industrial Society in 1858. Two oils were lent by their owner, N.H. Simson, to the 1857 Geelong Mechanics Institute Exhibition. Though most of Emery’s paintings were of horses, he also exhibited an occasional landscape or fruit picture. In 1860 he showed four oils at the Victorian Exhibition of Fine Arts: one was View of Quamby Bluff and Ranges, Tasmania and two were portraits of racehorses – Flying Buck and Alice Hawthorne – which had been favourably reviewed in the Argus when a lithograph after the latter was published the previous year. Of Alice Hawthorne it was stated: 'if a fault with the picture is to be found, we should say that a handsomer animal than the veritable Alice Hawthorne has been depicted. But as horses, no more than ladies, do not lose by a little flattery in portraiture, the error must be considered a venial one.’
Emery appears to have left Melbourne early in 1861 and moved to Queensland. A hand-coloured print after his painting, Zoe, Winner of Queensland Champion Race, May 29th 1861. J. Ashworth, Jockey (National Library of Australia), was published in Brisbane by Thomas Ham .
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
