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THE OLD SALTER HOMESTEAD KELMSCOTT - WATER COLOUR FRAMED

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F L Walters

1926

Overview

Water colour of a stone/mudbrick single storey house with a corrugated iron roof. Veranda around house. Brick chimney back right corner. Trees in background. Tree in foreground covering left side of house. Wooden post fence on left side of a three horizontal bar gate with a post & wire fence to the right. Dirt road in front. Artist signature bottom right corner. Framed in brown stained wood frame, glass at front and cream matte board.

Historical information

Samuel and Sarah Salter arrived in Western Australia aboard the Diadem in 1842, settling near north of Bunbury. In the 1850s the family moved to Perth and in the early 1870s their son Samuel Salter Junior moved to Kelsmcott. Their daughter Hannah had also married Thomas Buckingham in 1871 in Kelmscott.
In 1875 Samuel married Ellen Buckingham, the sister of Thomas Buckingham. In 1878 Ellen unexpectedly died leaving behind Samuel and their baby daughter. Nine years later Samuel married Ellen Best and they soon moved to a home on River Road in Kelmscott where they planted a vineyard, started making wine and established a saw mill. The home was called 'Sunnyside' and housed members of the Salter family until 1963 when the property was sold.
This paining is of the Salter family River Road home, painted by Perth artist Frank Leonard Walters in 1926. Frank was a member of the Western Australian Society of Arts and regularly exhibited in their shows. In 1922 he exhibited a trio of paintings titled 'In the Hills' described as 'being full of charm of the open air.' (The Daily News 19 Dec 1922 p5). In 1927 he submitting 'several interesting landscapes' at one of their shows (The Daily News 14 January 1927 p7).
Frank married Catherine May Hughes in 1902 and died in 1941.

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Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2008.41

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Social History

Material

Width

19 mm

Height or length

366 mm

Depth

278 mm

Inscriptions and markings

F L Walters

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