. Studio international . ER: HENRYTEBBITT. BY W. ALDEN-HOVEN. It was while on a visit to Queensland, somesixteen or seventeen years ago, that I first saw inthe Brisbane Art Gallery an example of HenryTebbitts work in water-colour. I was at onceimpressed with the directness of purpose, theabsolute unconventional mode of treatment anddelicacy of colour. I there and then made up mymind to become acquainted with Mr. Tebbitt andhis work, and have since that time been closelyassociated with him. Mr. Tebbitt was born in Paris of English parents,and, though destined to a business career, he soondiscov
. Studio international . ER: HENRYTEBBITT. BY W. ALDEN-HOVEN. It was while on a visit to Queensland, somesixteen or seventeen years ago, that I first saw inthe Brisbane Art Gallery an example of HenryTebbitts work in water-colour. I was at onceimpressed with the directness of purpose, theabsolute unconventional mode of treatment anddelicacy of colour. I there and then made up mymind to become acquainted with Mr. Tebbitt andhis work, and have since that time been closelyassociated with him. Mr. Tebbitt was born in Paris of English parents,and, though destined to a business career, he soondiscovered that his ambitions were not visited the principal art schools in Europe,plying his brush in a desultory way, and gainingmuch experience. He showed at many exhibitions,both on the Continent and in England—notablythe Royal Academy in 1882, where he exhibited anoil painting, Southampton Water, which at the timewas very well spoken of. But it was not until hearrived in Australia, and was impressed by the. roRIKAir OF MR. HICNRY TRH1UT1 (Photo, AppUby, Sydney) Henry Tebbitt, Australian Water-Colour Painter grandeur and vastness of the Australian Bush, thathis artistic career may be said to have begun. It is questionable, in discussing a painter or hiswork, whether it be better to do it through hispersonality or through his work. In this case,however, I think the two may be safely placedtogether. Firstly, it is a great deal owing to hispersonality, certainly as much as to his work, thatMr. Tebbitt has succeeded by hard and determinedstudy in mastering the difficulties and intricacies ofAustralian scenery. Let it be said that Mr. Tebbittis purely a student of Nature and a landscape andmarine painter. To an artist coming directly from Europe toAustralia the differences in atmosphere, vegetationand colouring are so enormous that it takes a few-years for him to overcome his feeling for Englishfoliage and herbage and to become temperamt ntallyacclimatised. Thus it hap
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