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BIO: LWK Wirth

BIO: FW Whitehouse

BIO: Vincent Sheldon

BIO: FJ Martyn Roberts

A detail view of an oil painting in which a trio of people in Edwardian dress sit under a jacaranda tree in full bloom.

BIO: R Godfrey Rivers

BIO: Robert S Rayment

LABEL: 2005.116 SHARPE

LABEL: 1999.001 CILENTO

LABEL: 1997.151 LAHEY

LABEL: 2013.217 WIRTH

LABEL: 1985.026 ROBERTS

LABEL: 2005.046 CAMPBELL

LABEL: 2003.111 HIRST

LABEL: 1999.041 OWEN

A detail view of an oil painting depicting Brisbane city in the 1930s.

ESSAY: William Bustard's Brisbane lightscapes

ESSAY: Watercolour in Queensland 1850s–1980s

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The cover of a magazine called The Queenslander depicts a large jacaranda tree in bloom.

ESSAY: Brisbane’s first jacaranda

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A black and white photograph depicts a garden with a large jacaranda tree and palms.

ESSAY: Under the jacaranda

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2022.001 LAHEY

EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0306 BUSTARD

LABEL: 1983.149 LAHEY

EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0306 BUSTARD

EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0246 LANCASTER

EXPANDED LABEL: 1986.035 JENNER

EXPANDED LABEL: 2004.194.003 JENNER

EXPANDED LABEL: 1995.076 JENNER

EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0868A WISHART

A black-and-white photograph of an older man seated on a verandah in the late 1890s; he is smiling gently, and seated with his hand at an open book and with a small vase of roses at the table.

MEET THE ARTIST: Isaac Walter Jenner

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An oil painting depicting a jacaranda tree blooming in a backyard.

ESSAY: Charles H Lancaster’s Jacarandas

EXPANDED LABEL: 2004.194.004 JENNER