The Old Sobraon (Berrys Bay Sydney) 1931
Courtesy of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
This Painting is from the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery’s Lloyd Rees Collection, that includes 60 prints, drawings, and paintings, constituting one of the largest holdings of his work outside of a metropolitan centre.
From the 1940s until the 1960s Rees was part of the Northwood group, a small group of friends who would go on painting excursions around Sydney Harbour and northwestern Sydney. Rees tended towards a neo-impressionist style of landscape painting with sinuous linework. Rees’ painting of the ‘Old Sobran’ was done during this period.
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- About HMAS Tingira
HMAS Tingira (Ex-Sobraon) was originally laid down as the Sobraon in Scotland. After carrying cargo and passengers between the UK and Australia for many years she was purchased by the NSW government in 1891. Moored off Cockatoo Island she was used as a Nautical School Ship for wayward boys until 1911.
In 1911 Sobraon was purchased by the Commonwealth Government and fitted out as a boy’s training ship at Mort’s Dock Balmain. The name chosen for her was an aboriginal word meaning ‘open sea’ and she became HMAS Tingira when commissioned.
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