George A. J. Webb
{{short description|English painter}}
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George Alfred John Webb (1861 – 16 August 1949) was an English painter who had a considerable career in Australia painting portraits of South Australian and Victorian public figures. In correspondence, he signed his name "George A. J. Webb"; many of his paintings, but not all, were signed simply "WEBB".
History
Webb studied painting in England and Europe before emigrating to Australia around 1890,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12699909 |title=Royal Society of Tasmania. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=16 July 1890 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=2 Supplement: The Mercury Supplement |publisher=National Library of Australia}} but could have been as early as 1888. His older sister Frances "Fanny" Webb had married the painter Charles Rolando (1844-1893) around 1874, moving to Australia in 1885 and setting up a studio in Grey Street, East Melbourne.Suzanne G. Mellor, [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rolando-charles-4500/text7357 'Rolando, Charles (1844–1893)'], Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 27 November 2012
Webb lived and worked first in Melbourne, Victoria, painting landscapes around Fernshaw and Gippsland Lakes which Rolando also favoured and often took him there on excursions. Then 1890 and 1891 in Launceston, Tasmania,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39550621 |title=Current Topics |newspaper=Launceston Examiner |location=Tas. |date=20 June 1890 |accessdate=27 November 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} returned to Melbourne, where he married Christina Lake in 1892 and spent their honeymoon in Europe.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39474923 |title=Fashionable Marriage. |newspaper=Launceston Examiner |location=Tas. |date=8 October 1892 |accessdate=27 November 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} When Rolando died in 1893 Webb taught in Rolando's art classes for at least a year thereby collaborating with Jan Hendrik Scheltema, who had taught there from 1889 and who left in December 1894. Both were supervised by Frances.
In 1897 they moved to Adelaide,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54498657 |title=Art in Oils |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=28 June 1897 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} This article gives a good indication of Webb's range and style. where he opened a studio in Broken Hill Chambers{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87697464 |title=Current Topics. |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=10 July 1897 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
This article states that Webb had "nine years colonial experience", so he may have emigrated in 1888. then in Brookman Building, where he also conducted classes.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35105965 |title=German New Guinea |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=19 February 1898 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=7|publisher=National Library of Australia}} He moved to Steamship Building, Currie Street, sometime before 1914. He joined the South Australian Society of Arts soon after his arrival, and proved to be an active member, participating in most exhibitions and was for some years its vice president.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
Their holidays were often spent with her sister, Florence Lake (died 25 November 1946), at "Lyndoch" on the Hopkins River near Warrnambool.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53613177 |title=The Social Round |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=24 December 1928 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=18 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
During the Great War, Mrs Webb was active with the Cheer-Up Society in its work providing comforts for the "diggers".{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87603846 |title=A Farewell at the Cheer-Up Hut |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=2 June 1917 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=44 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
In 1917 they moved from their home at 18 South Terrace, Adelaide, to Melbourne to be closer to his wife's parents, who were of advanced years.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5549393 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=2 January 1917 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} He opened a studio in Stalbridge Chambers, Chancery Lane and lived at "Lalla Rookh", 41 Fellows St, Kew.
In 1920 George Rolfe died, leaving a considerable sum (£23,000) in trust for Christina and her two children.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1676784 |title=Late George Rolfe's Estate |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=10 February 1920 |accessdate=27 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
Around 1925 he returned to Adelaide, where his daughter, Clarice Trott lived, and purchased a home at 3 Edwin Terrace, Gilberton. Christina died at Warrnambool in 1930 while staying with her sister. She had been in poor health for some time. George Webb appears to have done little in the way of painting from that time. He died in a nursing home in Adelaide on 16 August 1949. The newspapers made no mention of his passing, apart from a death notice, which made no mention of his family.
Exhibitions
In August 1894 the newly formed Melbourne Art Club had a showing at the Old Courthouse adjacent to the Town Hall, opened by the Chief Justice, which included works by Webb. Other notable exhibitors were: Charles S. Bennett, Arthur Merric Boyd and Mrs. Boyd, J. W. Curtis, H. P. Gill, J. Lake, Bert Levy, Mrs. George Parsons, Charles Rolando (who had died in 1893), Henri Tebbitt, Lawrence Travers, W. Joseph Wadham{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8661176 |title=New Melbourne Art Club |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=25 April 1894 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
In 1898 the South Australian Society of Arts held "The First Federal Art Exhibition" at the Institute Building on North Terrace which included three Australian scenes by Webb. Other exhibitors were James Ashton, H. Edward Davies, Gordon Coutts, A. J. Daplyn, Alfred R. Coffey, A. Henry Fullwood, W. Lister Lister, H. P. Gill, Rosa C. Fiveash, Elizabeth Caroline Armstrong, Annie Watson Laughton, Helen Hambidge, Miss M. A. Walker, Albert A. Pedvin, Miss E. A. Bloxam, Mrs. M. C. Scott, Emily Meston, Ethel Anna Stephens, Julian R. Ashton, Tom Roberts, Sydney Long, Alexander Colquhoun, T. St. George Tucker, Mrs. A. M. Boyd, J. Ford Paterson, Walter Withers, Norman Macgeorge, Helen A. Peters, Harold Septimus Power, E. Phillips Fox, Fred McCubbin, Margie White, Jean L. Wilson{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29424292 |title=Australian Art |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=11 November 1898 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
He was represented in almost every succeeding exhibition by the Society.
In 1910 he held a one-man exhibition. Only one portrait was shown, (Chief Justice Samuel Way), with dozens of seascapes and landscapes in both water-colour and oils: scenes in the Victorian Mallee and fern gullies, the Adelaide hills, on the River Torrens, the Buffalo Ranges (Victoria), the valley just below the viaduct near Blackwood, on the Belair Road, at Victor Harbor, Port Elliot, on the gulf coast, Backstairs Passage, near Strathalbyn, from the summit of Mount Lofty, and the Botanic Park. "Sunset on Lake Alexandrina" and "A Bushfire in the Grampians" created considerable interest.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5206500 |title=Exhibition of Paintings. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=8 November 1910 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
Portraits
:This list, compiled from newspaper reports, is not exhaustive
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1895 Archdeacon Stretch, hung in the Chapter House of the cathedral, Melbourne.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71221167 |title=News of the Churches. |newspaper=Australian Town and Country Journal |location=NSW |date=31 August 1895 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1893 Rev. Dr. L. D. Bevan D.D.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88970623 |title=The Rev. Dr. Bevan |newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser |location=Vic. |date=9 August 1893 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1899 Dr. Allan Campbell MLC (1836 – 30 October 1898){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54422788 |title=Untitled |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=28 March 1899 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} was purchased by his brother, Dr William Campbell.
Sir Richard Butler
1899 Sir Samuel Way, was hung in the Supreme Court Building, Adelaide nearly twenty years after it was painted{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59147351 |title=Late Chief Justice Honoured |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=27 June 1917 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1901 Rev. F. W. Cox of Congregational Church, Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56075082 |title=Congregational Union and Home Missions |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=18 April 1901 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1903 C. H. Goode (26 May 1827 – 5 February 1922) businessman and philanthropist, held by the Art Gallery of South Australia{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4921454 |title=A Fine Oil Painting |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=3 February 1903 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} An image of the painting may be seen here{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87836381 |title=London Personal Gossip |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=28 March 1903 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=42 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1904 Colonel William Light purchased by John Lewis M.L.C.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59148659 |title=Sale of Pictures by Mr. G. A. J. Webb |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=24 May 1917 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1905 Group portrait of the Full Court consisting of Sir Samuel Way, Sir James Boucaut, and Sir Henry Bundey with the master, A. Buchanan in the foreground, hung in the foyer of the Supreme Court of South Australia{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57559677 |title=Art in the Law Courts |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=4 February 1909 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1906 Sir Edwin Smith{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56683237 |title=Concerning People |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=17 September 1906 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} one of several portraits of Sir Edwin.
1909 Charles Todd{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5162660 |title=General News |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=14 January 1909 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} — Webb's offer of this painting to the Library board for 100 guineas was declined.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5235582 |title=Public Library Board |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=21 February 1910 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1910 Sir Richard Baker hung in the South Australian Jockey Club's committee room{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89744292 |title=Turf Gossip |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=29 October 1910 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=24 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1911 Thomas Templer of the Loyal Albert Lodge.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59030773 |title=Friendly Societies' Tribute |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=7 June 1911 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1911 John Creswell, hung in Members Room, Adelaide Oval{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5301935 |title=The Late Mr. J. Creswell |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=8 November 1911 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1912 E. L. Batchelor MLC presented to the Commonwealth Government by the Ottoman Society and shown at the Art Gallery{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58602435 |title=Concerning People. |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=2 September 1912 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1912 John Warren MLC of Mount Crawford{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58595352 |title=A Veteran's Portrait |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=15 October 1912 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1913 A. Mackie, secretary of the Commercial Travellers' Club.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5398402 |title=The Late Mr. A. Mackie |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=24 December 1913 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=19 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1914 Sir John Duncan of Watervale{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57175272 |title=Sir John Duncan's Portrait |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=7 February 1914 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1914 Sir John Lavington Bonython{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58506051 |title=Concerning People |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=17 April 1914 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1914 Sir Joseph Lister{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6422534 |title=New Medical Headquarters |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=26 June 1914 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1914 Rev. C. W. Evan of Stow Memorial Church{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56709856 |title=Stow Memorial Church |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=3 July 1914 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1928 Sir William Brunton{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56763338 |title=Chat with George A. J. Webb |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=11 October 1928 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
Archbishop Lowther Clarke
1915 Simon Harvey, an Adelaide timber merchant{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59622670 |title=Concerning People |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=23 October 1915 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1921 John Murray, Premier of Victoria{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63189614 |title=Concerning People |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=2 August 1921 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1918 Professor Ralph Tate, a gift of Tate's daughter Mrs. W. L. McDonald to the Public Library of South Australia.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5656911 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=25 June 1919 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} and now held by the Art Gallery and may be viewed here [http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/detail.jsp?ecatKey=11518].
1920 Sir Edwin Smith and Lady Smith;{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6431060 |title=A Striking Portrait |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=2 September 1914 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} both paintings held by the Art Gallery of South Australia{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65026568 |title=News of the Day |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=14 January 1920 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1925 Capt Harry Butler AFC, held by the Art Gallery of South Australia{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54917493 |title=Oil Portrait of the late Capt. Harry Butler |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=20 June 1925 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1927 Peter Waite, commissioned by the University of Adelaide.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43588075 |title=Personal. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=29 June 1927 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1928 Peter Goudie of Port Adelaide{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55027877 |title=Late Mr. Peter Goudie |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=24 April 1926 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1930 Sir John A Cockburn presented to the S.A. School of Mines by Sir Langdon Bonython and originally hung in Brookman Hall.
=Hung in Melbourne Town Hall=
:Five or six portraits by Webb were destroyed in the Town Hall fire of 1925.
1901 Sir Malcolm McEacharn, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1897-1900{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10555762 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=14 June 1901 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia Webb was based in Flinders Street, Melbourne at this time}}
1918 Sir David Hennessy, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1912-1917{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1636236 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=30 January 1918 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
William Whyte Cabena, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1918-1919
1922 John Aikman MLC, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1919-1920
1924 Sir John Warren Swanson, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1920-1923{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63730307 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=21 February 1925 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1928 Sir William Brunton, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1923-1926{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24204722 |title=Appreciation of Public Services |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=9 March 1928 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Newspaper article includes an image of the painting
=Hung in Legislative Council chamber, Parliament House, Adelaide=
=Hung in House of Assembly chamber, Parliament House, Adelaide=
1912 Sir Jenkin Coles{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29308595 |title=Portraits of Ex-Speakers |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=20 October 1928 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1917 Sir Frederick Holder, donated by Langdon Bonython{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5570904 |title=General News |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=10 November 1917 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
It is uncertain whether this was a duplicate of the painting in Canberra or a different one altogether.
1923 Hon. A. H. Peake{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74194887 |title=Memorial to Mr. Peake |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=11 August 1923 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
1928 Sir Richard Butler
=Hung in Parliament House, Canberra=
1913 Sir Frederick Holder{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87308177 |title=General News. |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=13 May 1916 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=33 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
Originally hung in Queen's Hall, Federal Parliament Houses, Melbourne
=Other works=
:This is a representative list from hundreds of works, to give an idea of subjects chosen by Webb.
"A view on the River, under the shadow of the famous Buffalo Ranges, Victoria" displayed in the entrance of Hopwood and James's shop, Launceston in June 1890. "The Devil's Punchbowl near Launceston"{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39565720 |title=Current Topics |newspaper=Launceston Examiner |location=Tas. |date=21 March 1891 |accessdate=27 November 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"Launceston By Sunset" and "Prize Hereford Ox", the property of Dr. L. G. Thompson and Roderick O'Connor respectively, loaned in 1892 to the Victorian Art Gallery.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39477360 |title=The Victoria Museum and Art Gallery |newspaper=Launceston Examiner |location=Tas. |date=9 November 1892 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"Sunrise: Hall's Gap in the Grampians", "Mooley's Track, Fernshawe", "Mount Wellington, Tasmania", "The Cascades, Mount Wellington", "In the Ranges near Warburton" "Hall's Gap, the Grampians", "In the Buckland Ranges" sold to unknown buyers October 1895{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8879247 |title=Sale of Pictures |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=30 October 1895 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"In the Highlands of Scotland" and "A Sunny Day near Cape Otway" were exhibited at an Adelaide Society of Arts exhibition in 1897{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35092558 |title=Society of Arts |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=30 September 1897 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"In the Mount Lofty Ranges, near Waverley Ridge" was exhibited at an Adelaide Society of Arts exhibition in 1899{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54583716 |title=Society of Arts |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=13 July 1899 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"Old Payneham Bridge" held by Broken Hill Public Art Gallery{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45443737 |title=Picture for the Art Gallery |newspaper=The Barrier Miner |location=Broken Hill, NSW |date=21 February 1918 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"Torrens Lake, Adelaide" (unknown buyer){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63033180 |title=Art Under the Hammer |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=8 December 1920 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"Bush Track", "Kangaroos" and "Emus at Sunset" were exhibited in 1898{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56545980 |title=Miscellaneous |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=14 November 1898 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"A Country Road"{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4968969 |title=Water-Color Paintings |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=12 May 1904 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"Australian Pastures" was exhibited in 1905{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4978181 |title=Federal Art Exhibition |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=9 November 1905 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
"The Bush at Fernshaw" exhibited in 1909
"Rounding Up Horses in the Danger Zone" exhibited at the 1912 Federal Exhibition demonstrated his ability to paint horses.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5351155 |title=Federal Art Exhibition |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=14 November 1912 |accessdate=26 November 2012 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
Family
His sister Frances "Fanny" Webb married the painter Charles Rolando (1844-1893) around 1874. She married again, to W. Broughton Hall (died ca. 8 October 1935) on 5 July 1899.
He married Christina Elizabeth "Crissie" Lake ( – 19 January 1930), daughter of John and Jane Ann Lake and step-daughter of George Rolfe (ca. 1837 – 10 September 1919) on 4 October 1892.
:Rolfe was a son of the Hon. George Rolfe. He married the widow Lake at Balaclava, Victoria on 2 June 1891.
Christina died at Warrnambool, and was the subject of a touching tribute in The Advertiser.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54160348 |title=Lady Kitty Says |newspaper=The Register News-Pictorial |location=Adelaide |date=27 January 1930 |accessdate=24 November 2012 |page=24 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
Their children were:
- Clarice, married Leonard W. Trott DDS in April 1920, lived at "Deepdene", 23 Fitzroy Terrace, North Adelaide, then from 1936 "Carawatha", 3 Edwin Terrace, Gilberton, South Australia
:*Ninette (24 July 1923 – 2007) married Geoffrey Dutton (2 August 1922 – ) on 31 July 1944
:*Elizabeth "Helen" Trott (3 October 1926 – ) married Theodore "Bill" Bruce (1923–2002) on 1 October 1949. Bill, son of a prominent Adelaide auctioneer, was a champion athlete who competed in the 1948 (London) Olympic Games.{{Cite web|url=http://corporate.olympics.com.au/athlete/theodore-bruce|title = Theodore Bruce}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47383879 |title=S.A. Athlete Honored. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=18 January 1952 |accessdate=23 April 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
:*Janet Myra Trott (3 October 1926 – ) married Geoffrey Richard Villiers (9 December 1924 – ){{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p22518.htm|title=Person Page}} on 23 October 1948.
- George Rolfe Webb (ca. March 1893 – ) was a corporal in the Australian Army and served for a time in Rouen, France, returning to Australia in 1918. He married and farmed at "Bonnington", Boorcan, Victoria (between Terang and Camperdown).
:*Mary Florence ( – ) married Dr. Peter D. Graeme Fox R.A.N.R. of Nedlands, Western Australia on 6 February 1946
A caricature of the 41 year artist may be seen here {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87820332 |title=An Artist. |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=15 March 1902 |accessdate=25 November 2012 |page=30 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
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