Walter Withers Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Walter Withers Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 20, 2024
Walter Herbert Withers (1854-1919),
Est: $350 - $450
MIddle Brighton, VIC pencil and wash, heightened with white initalled 'W.W' and titled lower left 21cm x 27.5cm
Aalders Auctions
Oct. 27, 2024
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914), Grazing Sheep
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Grazing Sheep oil on board signed lower right: Walter Withers 24.5 x 34.5cm PROVENANCE The R.W. Hall Collection, Melbourne
Gibson's
Oct. 27, 2024
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914), Ploughing by the Apple Orchard 1911
Est: $1,800 - $2,500
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Ploughing by the Apple Orchard 1911 watercolour signed and dated lower left: Walter Withers / 11 21 x 31cm PROVENANCE Elder Fine Art, Adelaide, Australian & European Paintings, 7 August 2005, Lot 201 Private Collection, Adelaide
Gibson's
Oct. 23, 2024
Walter Withers, Australian 1854-1914, Untitled-study of sheep, pencil on paper, 21.5cm by 28cm
Est: $500 - $1,000
Walter Withers Australian, 1854-1914 Untitled-study of sheep pencil on paper initialled lower right
Artvisory
Oct. 06, 2024
WALTER WITHERS, 1854-1914, Eltham House, watercolour, 31x47cm
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
WALTER WITHERS 1854-1914 Eltham House watercolour signed lower right
Lawsons
Aug. 24, 2024
Walter Herbert Withers (1854-1919),
Est: $500 - $600
MIddle Brighton, VIC pencil and wash, heightened with white initalled 'W.W' and titled lower left 21cm x 27.5cm
Aalders Auctions
Mar. 19, 2024
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Black Rock oil on board 19.5 x 33cm
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Black Rock oil on board signed lower right: Walter Withers 19.5 x 33cm PROVENANCE: Sotheby's, Melbourne, 29 May 1984, lot 46 Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Feb. 15, 2024
WALTER WITHERS, (RURAL STREET SCENE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 31 X 47CM UNFRAMED ACCOMPANIED BY A PRINTED REPRO...
Est: $2,200 - $4,200
WALTER WITHERS, (RURAL STREET SCENE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 31 X 47CM UNFRAMED ACCOMPANIED BY A PRINTED REPRODUCTION IN ORIGINAL FRAME
Leonard Joel
Feb. 08, 2024
WALTER WITHERS, (RURAL STREET SCENE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 31 X 47CM UNFRAMED ACCOMPANIED BY A PRINTED REPRO...
Est: $2,500 - $4,500
WALTER WITHERS, (RURAL STREET SCENE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 31 X 47CM UNFRAMED ACCOMPANIED BY A PRINTED REPRODUCTION IN ORIGINAL FRAME
Leonard Joel
Nov. 30, 2023
ARTIST UNKNOWN, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, INSCRIBED LOWER LEFT "WALTER WITHERS," 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Est: $300 - $500
ARTIST UNKNOWN, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, INSCRIBED LOWER LEFT "WALTER WITHERS," 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Leonard Joel
Nov. 21, 2023
WALTER WITHERS - STUDY FOR THE SILENT GUMS - OIL ON CANVAS ON PANEL
Est: $9,000 - $12,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) STUDY FOR THE SILENT GUMS Signed lower left Oil on canvas on panel 33.5 x 49cm Estimate $9,000/12,000 AUD
GFL Fine Art
Nov. 19, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1915), Twickenham River Crossing, Burnley, C.1898, oil on wood panel, signed lower left "Walter Withers", partially inscribed with title on handwritten label verso "Twickenham", 16.5 x 25 cm, 28 x 36cm overall, PROVENANCE: Deuts
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1915), Twickenham River Crossing, Burnley, C.1898, oil on wood panel, signed lower left "Walter Withers", partially inscribed with title on handwritten label verso "Twickenham", 16.5 x 25 cm, 28 x 36cm overall, PROVENANCE: Deutscher and Hackett, Two Important Private Collections: Modern / Traditional, Melbourne, 08/12/2021, Lot No. 11.
Leski Auctions Pty Ltd
Nov. 12, 2023
Walter Withers- Eltham House, watercolour, 31x47cm, signed lower right
Est: $1,700 - $2,200
Walter Withers- Eltham House, watercolour, 31x47cm, signed lower right
Christian McCann Auctions
Nov. 02, 2023
ARTIST UNKNOWN, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, INSCRIBED LOWER LEFT "WALTER WITHERS," 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Est: $500 - $700
ARTIST UNKNOWN, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, INSCRIBED LOWER LEFT "WALTER WITHERS," 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Leonard Joel
Oct. 19, 2023
ARTIST UNKNOWN, LANDSCAPE, OIL ON CANVASBOARD, INSCRIBED LOWER LEFT: WALTER WITHERS, 40.5 X 32.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 49 X 41CM
Est: $400 - $600
ARTIST UNKNOWN, LANDSCAPE, OIL ON CANVASBOARD, INSCRIBED LOWER LEFT: WALTER WITHERS, 40.5 X 32.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 49 X 41CM
Leonard Joel
Oct. 12, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper
Est: $1,400 - $2,400
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper signed and dated lower left: Walter Withers / 13 28 x 48cm PROVENANCE: Miriam Gallery, Melbourne (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Oct. 08, 2023
WITHERS Walter (1854-1914), Horse in Bush Landscape, W/Clr, 21x31cm
Est: $1,000 - $1,800
WITHERS, Walter (1854-1914) Horse in Bush Landscape Signed lower left. W/Clr 21x31cm
Davidson Auctions
Sep. 28, 2023
WALTER WITHERS, (LANDSCAPE WITH ROAD), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 30 X 45.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 55 X 67CM
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
WALTER WITHERS, (LANDSCAPE WITH ROAD), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 30 X 45.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 55 X 67CM
Leonard Joel
Sep. 28, 2023
WALTER WITHERS, RURAL LANDSCAPE (POSSIBLY ELTHAM), WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 21.5 X 28.5CM, FRAME SIZE:39.5 X 49.5CM
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
WALTER WITHERS, RURAL LANDSCAPE (POSSIBLY ELTHAM), WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 21.5 X 28.5CM, FRAME SIZE:39.5 X 49.5CM
Leonard Joel
Sep. 28, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper signed and dated lower left: Walter Withers / 13 28 x 48cm PROVENANCE: Miriam Gallery, Melbourne (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Aug. 27, 2023
Walter Withers, Sheep at Pool. Oil on canvas, Signed lower left. H 44cm W 59cm
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Walter Withers, Sheep at Pool. Oil on canvas, Signed lower left. H 44cm W 59cm
Christian McCann Auctions
Aug. 17, 2023
WALTER WITHERS, TWO LADIES ON A WALK 1904, WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER LEFT, 20.5 X 30.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 44 X 54CM
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
WALTER WITHERS, TWO LADIES ON A WALK 1904, WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER LEFT, 20.5 X 30.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 44 X 54CM
Leonard Joel
Aug. 10, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper
Est: $2,500 - $4,500
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper signed and dated lower left: Walter Withers / 13 28 x 48cm PROVENANCE: Miriam Gallery, Melbourne (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Aug. 10, 2023
WALTER WITHERS, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Est: $700 - $1,000
WALTER WITHERS, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Leonard Joel
Jul. 27, 2023
WALTER WITHERS, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Est: $800 - $1,200
WALTER WITHERS, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Leonard Joel
Jul. 27, 2023
WALTER WITHERS, TWO LADIES ON A WALK 1904, WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER LEFT, 20.5 X 30.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 44 X 54CM
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
WALTER WITHERS, TWO LADIES ON A WALK 1904, WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER LEFT, 20.5 X 30.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 44 X 54CM
Leonard Joel
Jul. 13, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper signed and dated lower left: Walter Withers / 13 28 x 48cm PROVENANCE: Miriam Gallery, Melbourne (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Jul. 13, 2023
WALTER WITHERS, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
WALTER WITHERS, (HOUSE), WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 15.5 X 21CM, FRAME SIZE: 27.5 X 33CM
Leonard Joel
Jun. 27, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene 1913 watercolour on paper signed and dated lower left: Walter Withers / 13 28 x 48cm PROVENANCE: Miriam Gallery, Melbourne (label verso) Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
May. 23, 2023
WALTER WITHERS - MRS GUNN'S COTTAGE - OIL ON CANVAS
Est: $18,000 - $25,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) MRS GUNN'S COTTAGE Oil on canvas 28 x 38cm Estimate $18,000/25,000 AUD
GFL Fine Art
May. 18, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1884 - 1914) Coastline with Houses watercolour 22 x 34 cm (frame: 37 x 49 x 2 cm) signed lower left
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
WALTER WITHERS (1884 - 1914) Coastline with Houses watercolour 22 x 34 cm (frame: 37 x 49 x 2 cm) signed lower left
Lawsons
Apr. 16, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914), Coastal Farm
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Coastal Farm oil on canvas signed lower right: Walter Withers 14.5 x 41.5cm PROVENANCE The Robert Law Collection, Melbourne Thence by descent
Gibson's
Apr. 16, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914), Beach Scene
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Beach Scene watercolour signed lower left: Walter Withers 17 x 48.5cm PROVENANCE Thirty Victoria Street Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso) Christies, Melbourne, 28 April 1976, Lot 446 Private collection, Melbourne Leonard Joel, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne EXIBITED Walter Withers: A Survey, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, 10 October – 21 November 1975, cat. no. 52 (label attached verso). LITERATURE Walter Withers: A Survey, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, 1975, unpaginated (illus.) OTHER NOTES Walter Withers' contribution to Australian Art was as a leading figure in the 'Heidelberg School'. His paintings, however, conjure the Neo Romantic lyrical moods of nature. It is the Impressionism of Monet. In a sense they were decadents, for they persisted in rendering nature suffused with soft romantic haze. Such painting has often been described as an endeavour to capture the 'spirit' of the landscape, 'the meaning within the meaning', not to record its anatomy but to portray its soul. Bernard Smith (on gallery label affixed verso)
Gibson's
Apr. 02, 2023
Walter Withers - Rural Landscape, oil on board, 21x28cm, signed lower left
Est: $3,500 - $5,250
Walter Withers - Rural Landscape, oil on board, 21x28cm, signed lower left
Christian McCann Auctions
Apr. 02, 2023
Walter Withers - The Field, watercolour, 20x35cm, signed lower right
Est: $2,200 - $3,300
Walter Withers - The Field, watercolour, 20x35cm, signed lower right
Christian McCann Auctions
Mar. 29, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914), Gums in Twilight
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Gums in Twilight oil on cedar panel 24.5 x 34.5 cm signed lower right: Walter Withers
Menzies
Mar. 19, 2023
WALTER WITHERS watercolour
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
57 WALTER WITHERS (18854-1914) Eltham House Watercolour 31x47cm Signed lower right
Kim's Auction
Mar. 19, 2023
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) "LIVESTOCK IN LANDSCAPE"
Est: $8,000 - $14,000
Fine Australian Colonial oil painting on board signed lower right 23cm x 33cm
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers
Feb. 26, 2023
Walter Withers (1854-1914)- Rural Landscape
Est: $4,500 - $5,000
Walter Withers (1854-1914)- Rural Landscape, oil on board, 21x28cm, signed lower left
Kim's Auction
Feb. 19, 2023
Walter Withers- River Scene, oil on canvas, 65x45cm, signed & dated 1896 lower left
Est: $15,000 - $22,500
Walter Withers- River Scene, oil on canvas, 65x45cm, signed & dated 1896 lower left
Christian McCann Auctions
Dec. 11, 2022
WALTER WITHERS. Eltham House, watercolour. Signed lower right, H 31cm, W 47cm
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WALTER WITHERS. Eltham House, watercolour. Signed lower right, H 31cm, W 47cm
Christian McCann Auctions
Dec. 11, 2022
Walter Withers- The Field, watercolour, 20x35cm, signed lower right
Est: $2,200 - $3,300
Walter Withers- The Field, watercolour, 20x35cm, signed lower right
Christian McCann Auctions
Dec. 04, 2022
Bears Signature WITHERS Walter (1854-1914), Victorian Farmhouse, Oil on Canvas Paper on Board, 23x29.5cm
Est: $200 - $400
Bears Signature WITHERS, Walter (1854-1914) Victorian Farmhouse Winsor & Newton 'oil sketching tablet' - NB: this board recorded as being in production c.1910. Oil on Canvas Paper on Board 23x29.5cm
Davidson Auctions
Dec. 01, 2022
WALTER WITHERS, ELTHAM, C.1898
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854 - 1914) ELTHAM, c.1898 oil on wood panel 22.0 x 20.5 cm bears framer’s label verso: Robt R. Stanesby, Yarra Street, Geelong PROVENANCE Estate of Mrs I. Higgins, Geelong (pupil of Walter Withers) Thence by descent Private collection, Melbourne Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 26 November 2003, lot 128 Savill Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso) Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 9 May 2007, lot 54 Private collection, Sydney ESSAY In the face of parental opposition to his desired career as an artist, Walter Withers came to Australia from England in 1883, working initially as a jackaroo before settling in Melbourne where he enrolled at the National Gallery School. Continuing art studies begun earlier at London’s Royal Academy and South Kensington Schools, there he met fellow students Louis Abrahams and Frederick McCubbin, as well as the older Tom Roberts – all of whom became lifelong friends – earning him the nickname ‘The Orderly Colonel’ as a result of his efficient manner and efforts to organise his colleagues.1 After a brief sojourn abroad studying at the Académie Julian in Paris alongside Australian expatriates E. Phillips Fox, Tudor St George Tucker and John Longstaff, Withers subsequently returned to Australia in 1889, soon moving to Heidelberg outside Melbourne, where he rented Charterisville, ‘a fine old stone mansion with a large barn and stables… a wild romantic garden… a broken fountain, and an odd pedestal here and there [which] suggested the glory of other days.’2 When the lease was taken over in 1894 by Phillips Fox and Tucker, who ran a school there offering instruction in plein air painting, the location became a popular gathering place for local artists. Renowned as an artist ‘who went out [in]to nature and made sincere and successful attempts to represent her varying moods’3, Withers’ art was widely acclaimed during this final decade of the nineteenth century when Eltham, c.1898 was most likely painted. In 1894, the National Gallery of Victoria had purchased A Bright Winter’s Morning, 1894 for its permanent collection and Tranquil Winter, 1895 was acquired the following year.4 The Storm, 1896 (Art Gallery of New South Wales) was awarded the inaugural Wynne Prize for landscape painting in 1897 – for which he received a generous payment of £40 – and in 1900 Withers won the prestigious prize again. A measure of international acknowledgement came too, with the inclusion of Tranquil Winter in the colonial art exhibition in London in 1898. Many of Withers’ subjects were areas close to his home – especially around Heidelberg and later, Eltham – locations he could walk or cycle to, which he reportedly often did with a prepared canvas and lightweight, portable easel slung over his shoulder.5 Heidelberg was like a small, rural village when Withers lived there during the 1890s, providing many picturesque views which he recorded in oil paint and watercolour. This changed as the city and suburbs grew and in 1903, with funds earned from a major commission to paint a series of narrative panels for the majestic home of pastoralist W. T. Manifold at Camperdown in western Victoria, Withers and his family moved to Eltham. Located about twenty kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Eltham offered a country environment and experience, with access to the city via a recently established railway service. As Fanny Withers wrote, ‘Purchasing a cottage there, with an orchard attached, he built for himself a charming Studio, the windows of which open on to a bit of Virgin Bush, where stand stately white gums of great beauty’.6 Having worked in and around Eltham previously, it was an area Withers knew well, and the decision to live there permanently proved to be productive for his art, offering limitless sources of inspiration, as the present work attests. ‘Every form of subject was there before him, with the added charm of rural figures at work in the paddocks, as tending their animals near the homesteads, as following the cows towards the milking sheds; in riding their horses to the creek for water. All these incidents were noted by the painter.’7 1. For Withers’ full biography, see Clark, J., and Whitelaw, B., Golden Summers: Heidelberg and Beyond, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1985, pp. 28 – 29 and Andrew Mackenzie, ‘Withers, Walter Herbert (1854-1914)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University at https://adb.anu.edu/biography/withers-walter-herbert-9156/text16183 2. Whitelaw, B., ‘Melbourne’s Answer in the 90s – ‘Charterisville’’ in Clark & Whitelaw, op. cit., p. 172 3. ‘Art of Walter Withers’, The Argus, Melbourne, 29 July 1919, p. 6 4. A Bright Winter’s Morning, 1894 was purchased in 1894 and then exchanged with the artist for Tranquil Winter, 1895 the following year. A Bright Winter’s Morning was reacquired for the NGV collection in 1956 when it was bequeathed by Mrs Nina Sheppard. 5. Mackenzie, A., Walter Withers: The Forgotten Manuscripts, Mannagum Press, Lilydale, 1987, pp. 24, 30 6. Ibid, p. 27 7. Ibid. p. 130 KIRSTY GRANT
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 29, 2022
Walter Withers (1854-1914) At Alphington
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Walter Withers (1854-1914) At Alphington titled and signed on panel verso: 'At Alphington Walter Withers' oil on heavy card 18.0 x 28.0cm (7 1/16 x 11in).
Bonhams
Nov. 29, 2022
Walter Withers (1854-1914) Tranquil Waters, 1894
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Walter Withers (1854-1914) Tranquil Waters, 1894 signed and dated lower right: 'Walter Withers 1894' oil on linen 67.0 x 46.0cm (26 3/8 x 18 1/8in).
Bonhams
Oct. 25, 2022
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Grazing Sheep oil on canvas laid on board
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) Grazing Sheep oil on canvas laid on board signed lower right: Walter Withers 23 x 33cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, South Australia
Leonard Joel
Oct. 16, 2022
WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914) "ELTHAM HOUSE"
Est: $1,600 - $2,400
Fine watercolour signed lower right 31cm x 47cm
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers