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In 1843, Conrad Martens, his wife Jane and their two daughters, Rebecca and Elizabeth, moved into Rockleigh Grange, "a Gothic-style sandstone house, said to have been designed by Martens from English architectural pattern books" (E Ellis, Conrad Martens - Life and Art, Sydney, 1994, p. 30). This property was in the district known as St Leonards, an area which stretched from the present day suburb of St Leonards, right down through to North Sydney and McMahon's Point. Although being slightly isolated on the other side of the harbour and with only boat access, Martens enjoyed the many new and varied aspects of the wonderful Sydney Harbour that he could discover and paint from this northern aspect.
The Claudian structure of this watercolour, takes the viewers eye from the domestic setting of the two women on the rock platform, out into the curvaceous shore line of Sydney Harbour. The first and most prominent headland in this watercolour is probably a view of Milson's Point. On the south side of the harbour from the right to the left of the watercolour are Fort Macquarie, Potts Point with Darlinghurst Ridge running behind it, Darling Point, and being clipped by the tree in the foreground - the South Head Lighthouse.
The Claudian structure of this watercolour, takes the viewers eye from the domestic setting of the two women on the rock platform, out into the curvaceous shore line of Sydney Harbour. The first and most prominent headland in this watercolour is probably a view of Milson's Point. On the south side of the harbour from the right to the left of the watercolour are Fort Macquarie, Potts Point with Darlinghurst Ridge running behind it, Darling Point, and being clipped by the tree in the foreground - the South Head Lighthouse.