b'129914914 915 916MARY ANN SYNNOT (Williams)THOMAS ABIEL PRIORARTIST UNKNOWN (1828-1903), (1809-1886), (Australian, 19th century),Bunyin-a-wak, South Brighton, Brighton, (Victorian goldfields),watercolour, hand-coloured engraving, c1860, oil on canvas,signed, titled and dated Oct. 24th 59published by J & W Robins, London, 13 x 17cm, 26 x 32cm overallat lower left, 21 x 42cm; framed 44 x 63cm overall. $30050015 x 23cm. $100150 also initialled M.A.W. (Mary Ann Williams) lower left.Mary Ann Synnot, daughter of Captain Walter Synnot and wife of Reverend Montague Williams. She had accompanied her father to Van Diemens Land in 1836, marrying Williams in 1851 in Launceston. They eventually moved to Ballan in Victoria and she died at Toorak. She is buried at St.Kilda Cemetery. The homestead depicted in this watercolour is her brother-in-laws South Brighton station in the Wimmera, where she was visiting her sister, Annie, in 1859. Her manuscript journal recording this work and her travels between 1859 and 1864 has also survived, and is housed in therare books library at Monash University.$2,0003,000916'