This is Florence Fuller’s A golden hour c 1905, a painting portraying that magic hour at the end of the day. The place is the Darling Ranges in Western Australia, and the couple are John Winthrop Hackett, businessman, philanthropist and owner of the West Australian newspaper, and his new wife Deborah Vernon Hackett, née Drake-Brockman, who had married Hackett in 1905, aged eighteen, despite family disapproval.
The sun is slowly setting and sends a warm glow over the grasses and wildflowers, lighting up the trunks of the white gums. A couple walk side by side through the wildflowers into the valley. There are pink tinges to the sky above the low-lying hills. And we can almost hear the chirp of birds in the great gum trees so typical of Australian landscapes painted in the first decades of the twentieth century.
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