One of the most historic homes in the Southern Highlands is auctioning off its fine art and furnishings.
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‘Wandevan’ was built in the early 1880s by Henry Edmund Southey, an academic from Oxford before it briefly became the home of Sir Edmund Barton and his family in 1888. Barton would become Australia’s first prime minister in 1901.
According to Charleston’s, each item in the home will be sold on-site, including an array of “fine furnishings, Australian art and general household items.”
Highlights include: Victorian mahogany dining table and chairs, Pro Hart oil, Robert Dickerson charcoal, Norman Lindsay drawing, B & B Billards table, 19thCentury pine dresser, David Bromley ‘Nude’, Gillie and Marc acrylic, signed graphics by C. Blackman and J. Olsen, Persian inlaid silk Naine, large Tabriz carpet, tribal rugs, monumental Children’s bronze, water feature, collection of bronzes including Degas and Rodin, signed Picasso and Dali lithographs, Aboriginal art by Gloria Petyarre and Colleen Wallace, Victorian mahogany chaise, bookcase, chiffonier, sideboard, dressing tables, Wedgwood, Villeroy & Boch dinner service, Burr walnut marble top sideboard, cedar chest of drawers, various armoires, roll top desk, Captain’s chair, Bradman memorabilia, French provincial armchairs, breakfast table and brentwood chairs, meat safe, cloisonné vases, porcelain, bone carvings, teak outdoor table, John Deere ride-on-mower.
- Wandevan home contents auction: Sunday, October 7, preview from 9:30am, auction starts at 11:30am. 20-24 Southey Street, Mittagong.