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Patrick William Marony (1858-1939)
Capture of Ned Kelly 1894
oil on canvas painting; 137.2 x 183.2 cm
Pictures Collection,
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Capture of Ned Kelly is one of 24 paintings by Patrick William Marony, held in the Library’s Pictures Collection. Born in Carragh, Waterford County, Ireland, Marony came to Australia c.1883. A man of many talents, he was known variously as a draper, painter, photographer, journalist and director. He also wrote the stories for three films produced by the Australian Life Biograph Co., Manly in 1911. Marony painted portraits and landscapes, and was known to have had a particular interest in depicting the Australian bushranging era. On 14 June, 1894, the Sydney Morning Herald, commenting on an exhibition of Marony’s ’stirring scenes of the bushranging days', noted that he painted from authentic photographs and visited the actual scenes of the events portrayed in his paintings.

 

February 2005 Volume XV Number 5

MEETING AT CROSSROADS

Diana Giese reports on an intriguing anthology of Australian literary translation

ASSISTING AUSTRALIAN WRITERS

Ann-Mari Jordens looks at the history of the Public Lending Right and Educational Lending Right schemes

THE PAPERS OF IVY SCHILLING

Michelle Potter looks at the career of a once household name in Australian dancing

ADAM FORSTER

From Prussian Army officer to Australian wild flower painter Christobel Mattingley pays tribute to the little-known illustrator of Thistle Harris' Wild Flowers of Australia

NED KELLY AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

Australiana collector and researcher Brain McDonald reveals the Library’s extensive holdings on the Kelly gang

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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