• Title
  [Anna Maria Macarthur (nee King) / watercolour by] William Nicholas, 1843
• Creator
  William Nicholas, ca. 1807-1854
• Call number
  P2/469
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1843
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  153564
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing - visible image 19.5 x 15 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Anna Maria was the eldest daughter of Governor Philip Gidley King. She married Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur in 1812 and the couple settled at Vineyard, Parramatta, which became one of the leading houses of the colony. After the financial collapse of her husband in the late 1840s, the couple moved to Ipswich, where Anna died in 1852.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Shows Anna Macarthur at the height of her social position, and just before financial troubles overwhelmed her husband. It was painted in the same year as Nicholas' somewhat grander portrait of her mother Anna Josepha King (Location Number: ML 1192), who was then also living at Vineyard. Nicholas seems to have been the favoured local portrait artist of the Macarthur and King families -- Curator of Pictures, Mitchell Library, 2002.
  Digital order no:a128185
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed "W. Nicholas / 1843" at lower right
  "Copy of this at Government House, Parramatta. This belonged to Mrs H. E. [Elizabeth M.] Goldfinch who was herself a grand-daughter of Mrs Hannibal Macarthur" -- in pen in later hand on reverse
  "Mrs. Hannibal Macarthur, Vineyard, Parramatta 1843. My grandmother [signed] E. M. Goldfinch" -- old window mount backing
• Name
  Macarthur, Anna Maria, 1793-1852
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  

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