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Laperouse entering Botany Bay Australia

Saturday, April 16th, 2011
I am marking out 3 paintings this morning, “Mermaids Pool Kynance Cove“, “Antibes Bay” and “Laperouse entering Botany Bay  Australia“.
The Latter scene shows the ships of Laperouse based on the only drawings my extensive research has revealed  made by eye witnesses in his crew, of the 2 ships.
Laperouse was the French answer to Captain James Cook.
Laperouse visit to Botany bay was remarkable and his last contact with Europeans. Laperouse_Sketch_IMG_0855_d.JPG (more…)

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Laperouse entering Botany bay, oil sketch

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

By a huge coincidence, an extraordinary chance meeting, the ships of Laperouse encounter the First Fleet, some under weigh, others still at anchor as they prepare to move to Port Jackson to start in earnest a colony at Sydney Cove.

Working from original fine quality drawings made by of their ships by the French officers, their journals and the journals of the British we have here a representation of the French ships quite unlike the work of any other marine artist. Laperouse_arriving_at_Botany_Bay___sketch_IMG_0872_d.JPG (more…)

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