PAINTING: 'A DAY AT MOSMANS BAY', WILLIAM FREDERICK STUART

Image: View of Mosman Bay's rocky foreshore with the well forested cliff forming the backdrop in this oil painting. A blonde woman in a cream bathing costume seated on a rock is the centrepiece. Behind her to the left is a smaller figure of a girl in a dark pink swimming costume and white bathing cap and beyond is a motor boat and a dinghy being rowed by two boys (?). A boat shed is visible at the water's edge. Two men are walking in the shallow water in the lower right hand corner of the picture.

This painting hung in Subiaco Senior Citizens Centre dining room together with other paintings by W.F. Stuart.

Signature: Signed 'WF Stuart' in the bottom left hand corner and his name and address are printed in ink and pencil on the reverse, also this caption: "A Day at Mosman Bay W.A.".

Frame: The title is printed on a little wooden plaque at the lower centre of the ornate gold painted frame.

Reverse: Presented to Elderly Citizens Centre WA 1.1.'69 by W.F. Stuart.