Limited edition (17/25) etching print entitled ‘Bracken Bank...

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Limited edition (17/25) etching print entitled ‘Bracken Banks’ by Henri Benedictus van Raalte (H. Van Raalte - 11 February 1881 London - 4 November 1929 Second Valley, Australia), titled and signed by the artist, frame approx 67cm x 47cm.

Van Raalte studied at the Royal Academy and later in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1901 he was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and in the same year had a picture hung at the Royal Academy exhibition. In 1902 there were full-page reproductions of an etching, and a dry-point by van Raalte in Modern Etching and Engraving, published by the Studio at London. In 1910 he went to Western Australia and founded a school of art at Perth, exhibiting his work in Perth in 1919 and in Adelaide. In 1921 he was appointed curator of the art department at Adelaide, and in 1922 his title was changed to curator of the Art Gallery of South Australia.